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Victory and disaster establish indestructible bonds between armies and their commanders.

Victory and disaster establish indestructible bonds between armies and their commanders.

Napoleon Bonaparte
War, Army, Victory

A victorious general must know how to employ severity, justness, and mildness by turns, if he would allay sedition or prevent it.

Napoleon Bonaparte
War, Mildness, Turns
Napoleon Bonaparte (2012). “Napoleon's Military Maxims”, p.24, Courier Corporation

The art of land warfare is an art of genius, of inspiration. On the sea nothing is genius or inspiration; everything is positive or empiric.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Art, War, Inspiration

I cannot approve of your method of operation, you proceed like a bewildered idiot, taking not the least notice of my orders.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Military, Order, Idiot

It is not set speeches at the moment of battle that render soldiers brave.

Napoleon Bonaparte
War, Brave, Soldier
Napoleon Bonaparte (2012). “Napoleon's Military Maxims”, p.65, Courier Corporation

Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of revolution.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Names, Empires, Revolution
"Quotations for Special Occasions". Book by Maud Van Buren, 1937.

So you think the police foresees and knows everything. The police invents more than it discovers.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Thinking, Police, Knows

War is like government, a matter of tact.

Napoleon Bonaparte
War, Government, Matter

Unity of command is essential to the economy of time. Warfare in the field was like a siege: by directing all one's force to a single point a breach might be made, and the equilibrium of opposition destroyed.

Napoleon Bonaparte
War, Unity, Might

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 Bonaparte
Religious, Men, Earth
Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

Good infantry is without doubt the sinews of an army; but if it has to fight a long time against very superior artillery, it will become demoralized and will be destroyed.

Napoleon Bonaparte
War, Army, Fighting

Artillery is more essential to cavalry than to infantry, because cavalry has no fire for its defence, but depends on the sabre.

Napoleon Bonaparte
War, Fire, Essentials

In a narrow sphere great men are blunderers.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Greatness, Men, Spheres

Secrets travel fast in Paris.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Paris, Secret

The word impossible is not French.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Writing, Impossible
"Famous Sayings and their Authors" by Edward Latham, (p. 138), 1906.

Tragedy warms the soul, elevates the heart, can and ought to create heroes. In this sense, perhaps, France owes a part of her great actions to Corneille.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Hero, Heart, Soul

If it had not been for the English I should have been emperor of the East, but wherever there is water to float a ship we are sure to find them in our way.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Should Have, History, Water

Charges of cavalry are equally useful at the beginning, the middle and the end of a battle. They should be made always, if possible, on the flanks of the infantry, especially when the latter is engaged in front.

Napoleon Bonaparte
War, Battle, Infantry

Immortality is the best recollection one leaves.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Immortality, Recollection
"Memoirs of Napoleon" published by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, (1829-1831).

You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them

Napoleon Bonaparte
Bayonets, Can Do

Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Hands, Revolution, Republican

An empty throne always tempts me.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Thrones, Empty

I tell you Wellington is a bad general, the English are bad soldiers; we will settle this matter by lunch time.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Lunch, Soldier, Matter

Policemen and prisons ought never to be the means used to bring men back to the practice of religion.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Mean, Men, Practice
Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

To a father who loves his children victor has no charms. When the heart speaks, glory itself is an illusion.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Children, Father, Heart

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