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Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes about War - Page 2

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A starving army is actually worse than none.

A starving army is actually worse than none.

Napoleon Bonaparte

War, Army, Starving

To extraordinary circumstance we must apply extraordinary remedies.

Napoleon Bonaparte

War, Circumstances, Remedy

Generals who save troops for the next day are always beaten.

Napoleon Bonaparte

War, Next Day, Troops

In war, the general alone can judge of certain arrangements. It depends on him alone to conquer difficulties by his own superior talents and resolution.

Napoleon Bonaparte

War, Judging, Talent

It is an approved maxim in war, never to do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that he desires it.

Napoleon Bonaparte

War, Enemy, Wish

Napoleon Bonaparte (2012). “Napoleon's Military Maxims”, p.17, Courier Corporation

War is a lottery in which nations ought to risk nothing but small amounts.

Napoleon Bonaparte

War, Risk, Ought

"Napoleon : In His Own Words" edited by Jules Bertaut, translated by Herbert Edward Law and Charles Lincoln Rhodes, (Ch. VII), 1916.

In war as in love, to bring matters to a close, you must get close together.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Love, War, Together

The object of war is victory, the object of victory is conquest, and the object of conquest is occupation.

Napoleon Bonaparte

War, Victory, Occupation

Men soon get tired of shedding their blood for the advantage of a few individuals, who think they amply reward the soldiers perils with the treasures they amass.

Napoleon Bonaparte

War, Tired, Men

All generals, officers, and soldiers who capitulate in battle to save their own lives should be decimated.

Napoleon Bonaparte

War, Soldier, Battle

Napoleon Bonaparte (2012). “Napoleon's Military Maxims”, p.70, Courier Corporation

You cannot stop me; I spend thirty thousand men a month.

Napoleon Bonaparte

War, Men, Months

We should always go before our enemies with confidence, otherwise our apparent uneasiness inspires them with greater boldness.

Napoleon Bonaparte

War, Inspire, Enemy

War must be made as intense and awful as possible in order to make it short, and thus to diminish its horrors.

Napoleon Bonaparte

War, Order, Awful

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

Napoleon Bonaparte

War, Humorous, Doctors

In revolution there are only two sorts of men, those who cause them and those who profit by them.

Napoleon Bonaparte

War, Men, Two

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

The affairs of war, like the destiny of battles, as well as empires, hang upon a spiders thread.

Napoleon Bonaparte

War, Destiny, Battle

The fate of war is to be exalted in the morning, and low enough at night! There is but one step from triumph to ruin.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Morning, War, Fate

It is with artillery that war is made.

Napoleon Bonaparte

War, Made, Artillery

He that makes war without many mistakes has not made war very long.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Military, War, Mistake

A man like me troubles himself little about a million men.

Napoleon Bonaparte

War, Men, Littles

Nothing is so important in war as an undivided command.

Napoleon Bonaparte

War, Important, Command

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

Napoleon Bonaparte

War, Writing, Opportunity

"Have You Ever Noticed? : The Wit and Irony of Every Day Life". Book by Joe Moore, 1985.

War is not at all such a difficult art as people think. . . . In reality it would seem that he is vanquished who is afraid of his adversary and the the whole secret lies in that.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Art, War, Lying

There is no man more pusillanimous than I when I am planning a campaign. I purposely exaggerate all the dangers and all the calamities that the circumstances make possible. I am in a thoroughly painful state of agitation. This does not keep me from looking quite serene in front of my entourage; I am like an unmarried girl laboring with child. Once I have made up my mind, everything is forgotten except what leads to success.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Girl, Children, War

My enemies make appointments at my tomb.

Napoleon Bonaparte

War, Enemy, Appointments

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