Napoleon Bonaparte

He who cannot look over a battlefield with a dry eye, causes the death of many men uselessly.

Ordinarily men exercise their memory much more than their judgment.

There are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging.

Success is the most convincing talker in the world.

What is the government? Nothing, unless supported by opinion.

As a rule it is circumstances that make men.

When you have an enemy in your power, deprive him of the means of ever injuring you.

Orders and decorations are necessary in order to dazzle the people.

If the art of war were nothing but the art of avoiding risks, glory would become the prey of mediocre minds.... I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest.

Give me enough medals and I’ll win you any war

The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.

In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.

I make my battle plans from the spirit of my sleeping soldiers

Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances

The greatest danger occurs at the moment of victory

You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.

The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain.