Napoleon Bonaparte

When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.

Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

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

In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

The human race is governed by its imagination.

Imagination rules the world.

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

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.

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.