21 quotes
Morality has nothing to do with such a man as I am.
Attributed The Story of World Progress (1922)
Even in war moral power is to physical as three parts out of four.
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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
Attributed Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources (1899)
Un bon croquis vaut mieux qu'un long discours.
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Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain.
Attributed Monarchy or Money Power (1933)
There is no subordination with empty stomachs.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Attributed The Military Quotation Book (2002)
Leave the Artillerymen alone, they are an obstinate lot.
Attributed The Dictionary of Military and Naval Quotations (1966)
The future destiny of the child is always the work of his mother. Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.
Attributed Mama Was My Teacher: Growing Up In A Small Southern Town (2004)
If I had succeeded, I would have been the greatest man known to history.
Attributed The Tyrants: 2500 Years of Absolute Power and Corruption (2006)
I am the instrument of providence, she will use me as long as I accomplish her designs, then she will break me like a glass.
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Surely in a matter of this kind we should endeavor to do something, that we may say that we have not lived in vain, that we may leave some impress of ourselves on the sands of time.
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Waterloo will wipe out the memory of my forty victories; but that which nothing can wipe out is my Civil Code. That will live forever.
Attributed The Story of World Progress (1922)
Ability is nothing without opportunity.
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I saw myself founding a religion, marching into Asia riding an elephant, a turban on my head and in my hand the new Koran that I would have composed to suit my needs.
Attributed The British in Egypt (1971)
If I were an Englishman, I should esteem the man who advised a war with China to be the greatest living enemy of my country. You would be beaten in the end, and perhaps a revolution in India would follow.
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‘Do you know,’ Napoleon once said to Fontanes, ‘what fills me most with wonder? The powerlessness of force to establish anything. There are only two powers in the world: the sword and the mind. In the end, the sword is always conquered by the mind.’
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You call these baubles, well, it is with baubles that men are led... Do you think that you would be able to make men fight by reasoning? Never. That is only good for the scholar in his study. The soldier needs glory, distinctions, and rewards.
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Tristan is very idle. He confessed to the Emperor that he did not work every day. "Do you not eat every day?" said the Emperor to him; "Yes, Sire." "Well, then, you ought to work every day; no one should eat who does not work." "Oh! if that be the case, I will work every day," said the child, quickly. "Such is the influence of the belly," said the Emperor, tapping that of little Tristan. "It is hunger that makes the world move."
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Italian saying, quoted by Bonaparte during the first Italian campaign to highlight the financial dependence of the Directoire on the plunder from the Army of Italy, according to Lucian S. Regenbogen, Napoléon a dit: aphorismes, citations et opinions, p. 82.
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