Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
In time of revolution, with perseverance and courage, a soldier should think nothing impossible.
When defending itself against another country, a nation never lacks men, but too often, soldiers.
Posterity alone rightly judges kings. Posterity alone has the right to accord or withhold honors.
If I had not been defeated in Acre against Jezzar Pasha of Turk. I would conquer all of the East.
In revolution there are only two sorts of men, those who cause them and those who profit by them.
The true wealth of a state consists in the number of its inhabitants, in their toil and industry.
If we could read the past histories of all our enemies we would disregard all hostility for them.
Every man who is worth thirty millions and is not wedded to them, is dangerous to the government.
So you think the police foresees and knows everything. The police invents more than it discovers.
Never depend on the multitude, full of instability and whims; always take precautions against it.
The transition from the defensive to the offensive is one of the most delicate operations in war.
After making a mistake or suffering a misfortune, the man of genius always gets back on his feet.
Do you know what astonished me the most in this world? The inability of force to create anything.
It strengthens the bonds between nations to have the same civil laws and the same monetary system.
It's the unconquerable soul of man, and not the nature of the weapon he uses, that ensures victory
For the stability of the Government, the people should have a considerable voice in the elections.
I drink Champagne when I win, to celebrate...and I drink Champagne when I lose, to console myself.
When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.
When I was happy I thought I knew men, but it was fated that I should know them in misfortune only.
It is exceptional and difficult to find in one man all the qualities necessary for a great general.
Paradise is a center whither the souls of all men are proceeding, each sect in its particular road.
A great Nation should have a fixed Government, so that the death of one man should not overturn it.
The Emperor died forsaken by all, on this horrible rock. (St. Helena) His death struggle was awful!
Policemen and prisons ought never to be the means used to bring men back to the practice of religion.
My business is to succeed, and I’m good at it. I create my Iliad by my actions, create it day by day.
The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world.
It is the business of cavalry to follow up the victory, and to prevent the beaten army from rallying.
The people excited by ambitious demagogues, sooner or later return into the hands of the Aristocracy.
To imagine that it is possible to perform great military deeds without fighting is just empty dreams.
Governments keep their promises only when they are forced, or when it is to their advantage to do so.
In statesmanship there are predicaments from which it is impossible to escape without some wrongdoing.
To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.
Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
Whatever shall we do in that remote spot? Well, we will write our memoirs. Work is the scythe of time.
Love is the occupation of the idle man, the amusement of a busy one, and the shipwreck of a sovereign.
France always has plenty men of talent, but it is always deficient in men of action and high character.
Prison, blood, death, create enthusiasts and martyrs, and bring forth courage and desperate resolution.
You do not get peace by shouting: Peace. Peace is a meaningless word; what we need is a glorious peace.
The man fitted for affairs and authority never considers individuals, but things and their consequences.
The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary.
To listen to the interests of all marks an ordinary government; to foresee them marks a great government.
Until then, mio dolce amor, a thousand kisses; but give me none in return, for they set my blood on fire.
A battle sometimes decides everything; and sometimes the most trifling thing decides the fate of a battle.
The object of war is victory, the object of victory is conquest, and the object of conquest is occupation.
All generals, officers, and soldiers who capitulate in battle to save their own lives should be decimated.
In order that a people may be free, it is necessary that the governed be sages, and those who govern, gods.
How many seemingly impossible things have been accomplished by resolute men because they had to do, or die?
God has decreed that there be sick and poor in this world, but in the next it will be the other way around.
Everything is more or less organized matter. To think so is against religion, but I think so just the same.
To a father who loves his children victor has no charms. When the heart speaks, glory itself is an illusion.