Napoleon1769–1821The quotations of
Napoleon
French military leader, French Emperor 1804–1814 and again in 1815
1769–1821
48 quotes, most often on War & Peace, Leadership and Courage.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
- Bonaparte, as quoted in Excellent Quotations for Home and School (1888) by Julia B. Hoitt, p. 51.
A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than an hundred thousand bayonets.
Appears to be fabricated as it is not known from surviving print before 19 March 1845 when it appeared in Mississippi Democrat in an article titled ‘The Press’ and in The North-Carolina Standard on its own as a column filler. On April 17, 1845 a long- In His Own Words (1916)
