976 Quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte

The most difficult art is not in the choice of men, but in giving to the men chosen the highest service of which they are capable.

A journalist is a grumbler, a censurer, a giver of advice, a regent of sovereigns, a tutor of nations. Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

What is the future? What is the past? What are we? What is the magic fluid that surrounds us and conceals the things we most need to know? We live and die in the midst of marvels.

A great Nation should have a fixed Government, so that the death of one man should not overturn it.

In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

Ambition is never content, even on the summit of greatness.

I base my calculation on the expectation that luck will be against me.

Strategy is the art of making use of time and space. I am less concerned about the later than the former. Space we can recover, lost time never.

Treaties are observed as long as they are in harmony with interests.