Napoleon Bonaparte
1769–1821
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"Soldiers! Forty centuries behold you!"
- Napoleon Bonaparte, July 1798.
To his army before the Battle of the Pyraminds.

"The moral is to the physical as three to one"
- Napoleon Bonaparte, 1769-1821

"My business is to succeed, and I’m good at it. I create my Iliad by my actions, create it day by day."
- Napoleon (1804), in a conversation with Pope Pius VII at Fontainebleau.

"the secret of war lies in the communications"
- Napoleon Bonaparte

"It is better to have a known enemy than a forced ally"
- Napoleon Bonaparte, 1848

"Conscription is the vitality of a nation, the purification of its morality, and the real foundations off all its habits"
- Napoleon, "Political Aphorisms" 1848

"To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war."
- Napoleon Bonaparte

"The bayonet has always been the weapon of the brave and the chief tool of victory"
- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Cavalry is usefull before, during, and after the battle"
- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Without cavalry, battles are without result"
- Napoleon Bonaparte

Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-Napoleon Bonaparte

I love a brave soldier who has undergone the baptism of fire. 
- Napoleon Bonaparte

Two armies are two bodies which meet and try to frighten each other.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

Soldiers usually win the battles and generals get the credit for them.
-Napoleon Bonaparte

"Courage is like love: it must have hope for nourishment."
   - Napoleon Bonaparte ("Maxims")

"Human life is the only thing that takes care of itself."
   - Napoleon Bonaparte (on why he left men exposed to the enemy in Russia)

"In war there is but one favorable moment; the great art is to seize it!"
   - Napoleon Bonaparte

"The most important qualification of a soldier is fortitude under fatigue and privation. Courage is only second; hardship, poverty and want are the best school for a soldier."
   - Napoleon Bonaparte

"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."
-Napoleon Bonaparte

"There are certain things in war of which the commander alone comprehends the importance. Nothing but his superior firmness and ability can subdue and surmount all difficulties."
   - Napoleon Bonaparte

"Strategy is the art of making use of time and space. I am less concerned about the later than the former. Space we can recover, lost time never."
-Napoleon Boneparte

"He that makes war without many mistakes has not made war very long."
-Napoleon Boneparte

"One bad general is worth two good ones."
- Napoleon Boneparte,. Made a career of finding, and defeating, inept enemy generals.

"How many things apparently impossible have nevertheless been performed by resolute men who had no alternative but death."
- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Read over and over again the campaigns of Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, Gustavus, Turenne, Eugene and Frederic. ... This is the only way to become a great general and master the secrets of the art of war. ..."
-Napoleon Bonaparte, "Military Maxims of Napoleon"