Quote #150
Strategy is the art of making use of time and space. I am less concerned about the latter than the former. Space we can recover, lost time never.
More from Napoleon Bonaparte
- Speeches pass away, but acts remain.
- Stupidity is not a handicap in politics.
- Some men have sufficient strength of mind to change their disposition, or at least to yield to imperative circumstances.
- Such work as mine is not done twice in a century. I saved the Revolution as it lay dying, I have cleansed it of its crimes and have held it…
- So you think the police foresees and knows everything. The police invents more than it discovers.
- Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
- Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
- The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.