"The object of war is victory, the..." - Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte

“Liberty is a need felt by a small class of people whom nature has endowed with nobler minds than the mass of men;.... Consequently, it may be repressed with impunity. Equality, on the other hand, pleases the masses.”

“It is the success which makes great men.”

“Each state claims the right to control interests foreign to itself when those interests are such that it can control them without putting its own interests in danger. ... other powers only recognize this right of intervening in proportion as the country doing it has the power to do it.”

“There are 1,000 lessons in defeat. But only one in victory.”

“To be a successful soldier you must know history. . . . What you must know is how man reacts. Weapons change but man who uses them changes not at all. To win battles you do not beat weapons - you beat the soul of man of the enemy man.”

“You must not, when you have gained a victory, use any triumphing or insulting expressions, nor show too much of the pleasure you feel; but endeavour to console your adversary, and make him less dissatisfied with himself by every kind and civil expression that may be used with truth; such as, you understand the game better than I, but you are a little inattentive, or, you play too fast; or, you had the best of the game, but something happened to divert your thoughts, and that turned it in my favour.”

“If I had not been defeated in Acre against Jezzar Pasha of Turk. I would conquer all of the East.”

“Have taken Trier with two divisions. What do you want me to do? Give it back?”

“There are so many worlds and I have not yet conquered even one.”