976 Quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte

The most terrible of all my battles was the one before Moscow. The French showed themselves to be worthy of victory, but the Russians showed themselves worthy of being invincible.

A Government protected by foreigners will never be accepted by a free people.

The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.

War is a serious game in which a man risks his reputation, his troops, and his country. A sensible man will search himself to know whether or not he is fitted for the trade.

There shall be no Alps.

Great men are meteors, consuming themselves to light the world

The inevitable end of multiple chiefs is that they fade and disappear for lack of unity.

In war as in love, to bring matters to a close, you must get close together.

Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires.