Top 500 Napoleon Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “To be believed make the truth unbelievable.”

— Napoleon

252. “Europe thus divided into nationalities freely formed and free internally, peace between States would have become easier: the United States of Europe would become a possibility.”

— Napoleon

253. “Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.”

— Napoleon

254. “God is on the side of the heaviest cannon.”

— Napoleon

255. “If I were an Englishman, I should esteem the man who advised a war with China to be the greatest living enemy of my country. You would be beaten in the end, and perhaps a revolution in India would follow.”

— Napoleon

256. “The logical end to defensive warfare is surrender.”

— Napoleon

257. “I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.”

— Napoleon

258. “The most terrible of all my battles was the one before Moscow. The French showed themselves to be worthy of victory, but the Russians showed themselves worthy of being invincible.”

— Napoleon

259. “Why and how are words so important that they cannot be too often used.”

— Napoleon

260. “In war, three-quarters turns on personal character and relations; the balance of manpower and materials counts only for the remaining quarter.”

— Napoleon

261. “An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.”

— Napoleon

262. “We are born, we live, we die among supernatural.”

— Napoleon

263. “Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.”

— Napoleon

264. “Independence, like honor, is a rocky island, without a beach.”

— Napoleon

265. “Women are nothing but machines for producing children.”

— Napoleon

266. “I have destroyed the enemy merely by marches.”

— Napoleon

267. “If I were to give liberty to the press, my power could not last three days.”

— Napoleon

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

— Napoleon

269. “Variety made the Revolution. Liberty was just a pretext.”

— Napoleon

270. “The heart of a statesman should be in his head.”

— Napoleon

271. “I would believe any religion that could prove it had existed since the beginning of the world. But when I see Socrates, Plato, Moses, and Mohammed I do not think there is such a one. All religions owe their origin to man.”

— Napoleon

272. “Here, Gentlemen, a dog teaches us a lesson in humanity.”

— Napoleon

273. “Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.”

— Napoleon

274. “Power is what they like – it is the greatest of all aphrodisiacs.”

— Napoleon

275. “I shall be an Attila to Venice.”

— Napoleon

276. “France has more need of me than I have need of France.”

— Napoleon

277. “Lies circle the earth while Truth is still trying to put on its shoes.”

— Napoleon

278. “Nothing is so important in war as an undivided command.”

— Napoleon

279. “War justifies everything.”

— Napoleon

280. “Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.”

— Napoleon

281. “Peoples of Egypt, you will be told that I have come to destroy your religion. Do not believe it! Reply that I have come to restore your rights!”

— Napoleon

282. “I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne.”

— Napoleon

283. “Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.”

— Napoleon

284. “I engage and after that I see what to do.”

— Napoleon

285. “Collective crimes incriminate no one.”

— Napoleon

286. “I love a brave soldier who has undergone the baptism of fire.”

— Napoleon

287. “What a beautiful fix we are in now; peace has been declared.”

— Napoleon

288. “A King should sacrifice the best affections of his heart for the good of his country; no sacrifice should be above his determination.”

— Napoleon

289. “He who is unmoved by tears has no heart.”

— Napoleon

290. “How many things apparently impossible have nevertheless been performed by resolute men who had no alternative but death.”

— Napoleon

291. “I wish I could take a raincheck on June 18.1815.”

— Napoleon

292. “All Italians are plunderers.”

— Napoleon

293. “Remember that a man, a true man, never hates. His rages and his bad moods never last beyond the present moment-like electric shocks.”

— Napoleon

294. “Lack is more in means, than in principles.”

— Napoleon

295. “Hereditary succession to the magistracy is absurd, as it tends to make a property of it; it is incompatible with the sovereignty of the people.”

— Napoleon

296. “Un croquis vaut mieux qu.”

— Napoleon

297. “It is exceptional and difficult to find in one man all the qualities necessary for a great general.”

— Napoleon

298. “In war the simplest manoeuvres are the best.”

— Napoleon

299. “The superior man is never in anyone’s way.”

— Napoleon

300. “Bloodletting is among the ingredients of political medicine.”

— Napoleon