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Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes about War - Page 3

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Sometimes a single battle decides everything and sometimes, too, the slightest circumstance decides the issue of a battle. There is a moment in every battle at which the least manoeuvre is decisive and gives

Sometimes a single battle decides everything and sometimes, too, the slightest circumstance decides the issue of a battle. There is a moment in every battle at which the least manoeuvre is decisive and gives superiority, as one drop of water causes overflow.

Napoleon Bonaparte

War, Issues, Giving

A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.

Napoleon Bonaparte

War, Ideas, Political

"Journal of International Affairs" by Columbia University. School of International Affairs, (p. 94), 1976.

To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Military, War, Soldier

That man made me miss my destiny.

Napoleon Bonaparte

War, Destiny, Men

Peoples of Egypt , you will be told that I have come to destroy your religion. Do not believe it! Reply that I have come to restore your rights!

Napoleon Bonaparte

War, Believe, Rights

The first quality of a soldier is constancy in enduring fatigue and hardship. Courage is only the second. Poverty privation and want are the school of the good soldier.

Napoleon Bonaparte

War, School, Soldier

In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Peace, Military, War

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

War justifies everything.

Napoleon Bonaparte

War, Justify

I engage and after that I see what to do.

Napoleon Bonaparte

War

I have fought sixty battles, and I have learnt nothing which I did not know at the beginning.

Napoleon Bonaparte

War, Battle, Knows

War is a serious game in which a man risks his reputation, his troops, and his country. A sensible man will search himself to know whether or not he is fitted for the trade.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Country, War, Men

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

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Veterans Day, War, Work

I treat policies like war. I hoodwink one flank so as to trounce the other. In my family we kneel only to God.

Napoleon Bonaparte

War, My Family, Treats

Never lose sight of this maxim, that you should establish your cantonments at the most distant and best protected point from the enemy, especially where a surprise is possible. By this means you will have time to unite all your forces before he can attack you.

Napoleon Bonaparte

War, Mean, Sight

Napoleon Bonaparte (2012). “Napoleon's Military Maxims”, p.30, Courier Corporation

In war, men are nothing, one man is everything.

Napoleon Bonaparte

War, Men, One Man

Providence is always on the side of the last reserve.

Napoleon Bonaparte

War, Lasts, Sides

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 841-60, 1922.

The keys of a fortress are always well worth the retirement of the garrison when it is resolved to yield only on those conditions. On this principle it is always wiser to grant an honorable capitulation to a garrison which has made a vigorous resistance than to risk an assault.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Retirement, War, Yield

When you have resolved to fight a battle, collect your whole force. Dispense with nothing. A single battalion sometimes decides the day.

Napoleon Bonaparte

War, Fighting, Battle

Napoleon Bonaparte (2012). “Napoleon's Military Maxims”, p.34, Courier Corporation

There is only one favorable moment in war; talent consists in knowing how to seize it.

Napoleon Bonaparte

War, Knowing, Talent

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

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.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Art, War, Fate

"The Mind of Napoleon" by J. Christopher Herold, (p. 45), 1955.

The worse the troops the greater the need of artillery.

Napoleon Bonaparte

War, Troops, Needs

There are in Europe many good generals, but they see too many things at once. I see one thing, namely the enemy's main body. I try to crush it, confident that secondary matters will then settle themselves.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Crush, War, Europe

In war the simplest manoeuvres are the best.

Napoleon Bonaparte

War, Simplest

In war, character and opinion make more than half of the reality.

Napoleon Bonaparte

War, Character, Reality

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

Even when I am gone, I shall remain in people's minds the star of their rights, my name will be the war cry of their efforts, the motto of their hopes.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Stars, War, Rights

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