Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
In the last analysis, one must be a military man in order to govern. It is only with boot and spurs that one can govern a horse.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Napoleon Bonaparte
Age: 52 †
Born: 1769
Born: January 1
Died: 1821
Died: January 1
Art Collector
Emperor
Militant
Military Leader
Military Officer
Politician
Sovereign
Statesman
Statesperson
Aiacciu
Napoléon Bonaparte
Le Petit Caporal
Le Corse
Napoleone di Buonaparte
Napoleon I
by the Grace of God and the Constitutions
Emperor of the French and King of Italy
Empereur des Français Napoléon I
Napoleon Buonaparte
emperador dels francesos Napoleó I
Napoleone Bonaparte
Napoleone Buonaparte
Emperador de Francia Napoleón I
Napoleon I
Na
Military
Lasts
Last
Boot
Order
Spurs
Must
Govern
Men
Boots
Analysis
Horse
More quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte
Strategy is the art of making use of time and space. I am less concerned about the later than the former. Space we can recover, lost time never.
Napoleon Bonaparte
After making a mistake or suffering a misfortune, the man of genius always gets back on his feet.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The French complain of everything, and always.
Napoleon Bonaparte
An army's effectiveness depends on its size, training, experience, and morale, and morale is worth more than any of the other factors combined.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Conscription is the vitality of a nation, the purification of its morality, and the real foundations of all its habits
Napoleon Bonaparte
Washington is dead! This great man fought against Tyranny he established the liberty of his country. His memory will always be dear to the French people, as it will be to all free men of the two worlds and especially to French soldiers, who, like him and the American soldiers, have combated for liberty and equality.
Napoleon Bonaparte
War justifies everything.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Liberty and equality are magical words.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Those who are free from common prejudices acquire others.
Napoleon Bonaparte
We are born, we live, we die among supernatural.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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
The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Good and decent people must be protected and persuaded by gentle means, but the rabble must be led by terror.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Neglect of duty does not cease, by repetition, to be neglect of duty.
Napoleon Bonaparte
An Emperor confides in national soldiers, not in mercenaries.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Liberty is a need felt by a small class of people whom nature has endowed with nobler minds than the mass of men.... Consequently, it may be repressed with impunity. Equality, on the other hand, pleases the masses.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.
Napoleon Bonaparte
In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The art of the police is not to see what it is useless that it should see.
Napoleon Bonaparte
