Good and decent people must be protected and persuaded by gentle means, but the rabble must be led by terror.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
There are two levers for moving men, interest and fear.
Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.
The first method is that of a schemer and leads only to mediocre results; the other method is the path of genius and changes the face of the world.
Great men are never cruel without necessity.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go.
We are strong, when we have made up our minds to die.
A man is not dependent upon his fellow creature, when he does not fear death.
We are all destined to die—can a few days of life equal the happiness of dying for one's country?
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Men of genius are meteors, intended to burn to light their century.
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. He who is endowed with it, may perform either very great actions, or very bad ones; all depends upon the principles which direct him.
He who hazards nothing, gains nothing.
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
I love a brave soldier who has undergone the baptism of fire.
I have recognized the limits of my eyesight and of my legs, but never the limits of my working power.
Circumstances? I make circumstances!
Be successful! I judge men only by the results of their actions
I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest.
If I had not been born Napoleon, I would have liked to have been born Alexander.
The greater the man, the less is he opinionative, he depends upon events and circumstances.
The stronger never retreat, they dictate the terms which the weak obey.
To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him
Friends must always be treated as if one day they might be enemies.
Age, habits of business and experience have modified many characters.
How many things apparently impossible have nevertheless been performed by resolute men who had no alternative but death.
Power is founded upon opinion.
It would be a joke if the conduct of the victor had to be justified to the vanquished.
Read over and over again the campaigns of Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, Gustavus, Turenne, Eugene and Frederic. ... This is the only way to become a great general and master the secrets of the art of war.
The secret of war lies in the communications.
To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war.
The moral is to the physical as three to one.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
An army marches on its stomach.
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
There are certain things in war of which the commander alone comprehends the importance.
Nothing but his superior firmness and ability can subdue and surmount all difficulties.
God is on the side with the best artillery
An army's effectiveness depends on its size, training, experience, and morale, and morale is worth more than any of the other factors combined.
Remember , gentlemen, what a Roman emperor said: The corpse of an enemy always smells sweet.
If you wage war, do it energetically and with severity. This is the only way to make it shorter and consequently less inhuman.
In war, moral factors account for three quarters of the whole; relative material strength accounts for only one quarter.
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 maneuver is decisive and gives superiority, as one drop of water causes overflow.
The transition from the defensive to the offensive is one of the most delicate operations in war.
The first qualification of a soldier is fortitude under fatigue and privation.
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
Imagination rules the world.
Men of genius are meteors, intended to burn to light their century.
Adversity is the midwife of genius.
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
Agriculture is the soul and chief support of empires; industry produces riches and the happiness of the people; exportation represents the superabundance, and good use of both.
To extraordinary circumstances we must apply extraordinary remedies.
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