500 Quotes by Napoleon

Immortality is the best recollection one leaves.

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.

Un croquis vaut mieux qu.

War justifies everything.

Europe thus divided into nationalities freely formed and free internally, peace between States would have become easier: the United States of Europe would become a possibility.

The bayonet has always been the weapon of the brave and the chief tool of victory.

The policies of all powers are inherent in their geography.

An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.

Diplomacy is the police in grand costume.