"If you wage war, do it energetically..." - Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte

“A fool is only troublesome, a pedant insupportable.”

“When I had the honor to be a second lieutenant, I ate dry bread, but I never let anyone know that I was poor.”

“The laws of circumstance are abolished by new circumstances.”

“Do not get into a fight if you can possibly avoid it. If you get in, see it through. Don't hit if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft. Don't hit at all if you can help it; don't hit a man if you can possibly avoid it; but if you do hit him, put him to sleep.”

“Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot.”

“Mass civil disobedience was for the attainment of independence.”

“In her (nature's) inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.”

“Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.”

“It is contrary to our principles to multiply organizations, since, in all conscience, there are enough of them. And when organizations are created they need individuals to look after them.”