He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

War is the business of barbarians.

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence.

Immortality is the best recollection one leaves.

Man achieves in life only by commanding the capabilities nature has given him, 
or by creating them within himself by education and by knowing how to profit 
by the difficulties encountered.

I have only one counsel for you - be master.

Courage is like love, it must have hope for nourishment.

Some revolutions are inevitable. There are moral eruptions, just as the outbreak 
of volcanoes are physical eruptions. When the chemical combinations which 
produce them are complete, the volcanic eruptions burst forth, just as revolutions 
do when the moral factors are in the right state. 
In order to foresee them, the trend  of ideas must be understandingly observed.

When you have an enemy in your power, deprive him of the means of ever injuring you.

Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

Victory belongs to the most persevering. The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.

Power is founded upon opinion.

Simpletons talk of the past, wise men of the present, and fools of the future.

A king is sometimes obliged to commit crimes; but they are the crimes of his position.

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.

Circumstances? What are circumstances? I make circumstances.

As a rule, it is circumstances that make men.

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Show me a family of readers and I will show you the people who move the world.

The superior man is never in anyone's way.

There are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, 
would be to be a god.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may 
perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.

Success is the most convincing talker in the world.

Malice delights to blacken the characters of prominent men.

A government protected by foreigners will never be accepted by a free people.

Religion keeps the poor from killing the rich.

How many seemingly impossible things have been accomplished by resolute men because they had to do, or die.

There are but two powers in the world, the sword and the mind. In the long run the sword is always beaten by the mind.

Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

From triumph to downfall is but a step. I have seen a trifle decide the most 
important issues in the gravest affairs.

He who cannot look over a battlefield with a dry eye, causes the death 
of many men uselessly.

You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.

We are made weak both by idleness and distrust of ourselves. Unfortunate, indeed, is he who suffers from both. If he is a mere individual he becomes nothing; if he is a king he is lost.

History is written by the winners.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

A constitution should be framed so as not to impede the action of government, nor force the government to its violation.
 
It is only by prudence, wisdom, and dexterity, that great ends are attained and 
obstacles overcome. Without these qualities nothing succeeds.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.

The Allied Powers having proclaimed that the Emperor Napoleon is the sole 
obstacle to the reestablishment of peace in Europe, he, faithful to his oath, 
declares that he is ready to descend from the throne, to quit France, 
and even relinquish life, for the good of his country.

To listen to the interests of all, marks an ordinary government; to foresee them, marks a great government.

Go, sir, gallop, and don't forget that the world was made in six days. You can ask me for anything you like, except time.

Two o'clock in the morning courage: I mean unprepared courage.

Unite for the public safety, if you would remain an independent nation.

From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step.

What is the throne? A bit of wood gilded and covered with velvet. I am the state - I alone am here the representative of the people. Even if I had done wrong you should not have reproached me in public - people wash their dirty linen at home. France has more need of me than I of France.

Every French soldier carries a marshal's baton in his knapsack.

The bullet that will me is not yet cast.

Wherever wood can swim, there I am sure to find this Flag of England.

France is invaded; I am leaving to take command of my troops, and, with God's help and their valor, I hope soon to drive the enemy beyond the frontier.

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.

Ability is of little account without opportunity.

The man fitted for affairs and authority never considers individuals, but things and their consequences.