Battles are lost or won in 15 minutes Napoleon Bonaparte More Quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte More Quotes From Napoleon Bonaparte The keys of a fortress are always well worth the retirement of the garrison when it is resolved to yield only on those conditions. On this principle it is always wiser to grant an honorable capitulation to a garrison which has made a vigorous resistance than to risk an assault. Napoleon Bonaparte yieldretirementwar Good intelligence is nine-tenths of any battle. Napoleon Bonaparte battlenine It is an approved maxim in war, never to do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that he desires it. Napoleon Bonaparte wishwarenemy Over-preparation is the foe of inspiration. Napoleon Bonaparte preparationinspirationinspirational We often get in quicker by the back door than by the front. Napoleon Bonaparte methodback-doorsdoors A general-in-chief should ask himself several times in the day, What if the enemy were to appear now in my front, or on my right, or my left? Napoleon Bonaparte what-ifwarenemy My downfall raises me to infinite heights. Napoleon Bonaparte heightfailureinfinite I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne. Napoleon Bonaparte successors A society without religion is like a vessel without compass. Napoleon Bonaparte vesselcompass Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Napoleon Bonaparte atheistreligiouspeople If the Earth were a single state, Istanbul would be its capital. Napoleon Bonaparte istanbulearthwould-be When you have an enemy in your power, deprive him of the means of ever injuring you. Napoleon Bonaparte meanenemy The secret of great battles consists in knowing how to deploy and concentrate at the right time. Napoleon Bonaparte knowingsecrettime The greater the man, the less is he opinionative, he depends upon events and circumstances. Napoleon Bonaparte eventshe-manmen Space we can recover; time never. Napoleon Bonaparte regretprocrastinationspace The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those chosen to attain their full worth. Napoleon Bonaparte enablingmenart The Jesuits are a MILITARY organization, not a religious order. Their chief is a general of an army, not the mere father abbot of a monastery. And the aim of this organization is power - power in its most despotic exercise - absolute power, universal power, power to control the world by the volition of a single man. Jesuitism is the most absolute of despotisms - and at the same time the greatest and most enormous of abuses. Napoleon Bonaparte militaryreligiousfather 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. Napoleon Bonaparte acceptancepowermen There is a joy in danger. Napoleon Bonaparte dangerjoy The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain. Napoleon Bonaparte gainsgivinghands
