976 Quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte

My decision to destroy the authority of the blacks in Saint Domingue (Haiti) is not so much based on considerations of commerce and money, as on the need to block for ever the march of the blacks in the world.

I drink Champagne when I win, to celebrate...and I drink Champagne when I lose, to console myself.

The keys of a fortress are always well worth the retirement of the garrison when it is resolved to yield only on those conditions. On this principle it is always wiser to grant an honorable capitulation to a garrison which has made a vigorous resistance than to risk an assault.

I have come to realise that men are not born to be free.

Ability has nothing to do with opportunity.

What a solace Christianity must be to one who has an undoubted conviction of its truth!

Every hour of lost time is a chance of future misfortune.

The tools belong to the man who can use them.

We are either kings or pawns of men