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In a battle, as in a siege, the art consists in concentrating very heavy fire on a particular point.
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
One can lead a nation only by helping it see a bright outlook. A leader is a dealer in hope.
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
Victories will be won, one of these days, without cannon, and without bayonets.
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
The issue of a battle is the result of an instant, of a thought.
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
The human race is governed by its imagination.
Hand weapons were the main weapons of the ancients; it is with his short sword that the legionary conquered the world. It is with the Macedonian lance that Alexander conquered Asia.
Whatever shall we do in that remote spot? Well, we will write our memoirs. Work is the scythe of time.
The secret of great battles consists in knowing how to deploy and concentrate at the right time.
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
Whatever misanthropists may say, ingrates and the perverse are exceptions in the human species.
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
I have gained the battle of Lutzen like the general-in-chief of the Army of Italy and of the Army of Egypt!
How many seemingly impossible things have been accomplished by resolute men because they had to do, or die.
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas.
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
An army ought to be ready every moment to offer all the resistance of which it is capable.
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
There is nothing so imperious as feebleness which feels itself supported by force.
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
Simpletons talk of the past, wise men of the present, and fools of the future.
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
It is often in the audacity, in the steadfastness, of the general that the safety and the conservation of his men is found.
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
War is a lottery in which nations ought to risk nothing but small amounts.
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
If you make everything difficult, the really hard things seem less so.
With Napoleon in Russia: The Memoirs of General De Caulaincourt, Duke of Vicenza (1933)
Audacity succeeds as often as it fails; in life it has an even chance.
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
You cannot drag a man's conscience before any tribunal, and no one is answerable for his religious opinions to any power on earth.
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)