Napoleon Bonaparte

I have fought sixty battles, and I have learned nothing that I did not know at the beginning.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

I made all my generals out of mud.

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

The strong man is the one who can interpose himself and say 'no'.

Water, air, and cleanliness are the chief articles in my pharmacopoeia.

If I had not been born Napoleon, I would have wished to be born Alexander.

Victory is not always to the strong, but to the swift, to the active, to the bold.

The unalterable plan of Providence is that the weak should be governed by the strong.

What's the idea? We blow the brains out of anybody who sticks his head into our sleigh, huh?

They'll put us on a ship and haul us to London in a cage, is what they'll do.

They'll put you, Caulaincourt, in a cage and show you off to the London merchants. I can just see you all full of honey and covered with flies in that cage. How would you like that?

There for awhile I thought the jig was up. I told myself: this is act one of the cage story. Caulaincourt had better start learning to growl like a bear.

I don't love you, not at all; on the contrary I detest you—you're a naughty, gawky, foolish slut.

A kiss on your heart, and one much lower down, much lower!

You are wicked and naughty, very naughty, as much as you are fickle.

How happy I would be if I could assist you at your undressing, the little firm white breast, the adorable face, the hair tied up in a scarf a la creole.

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.