Quote #155
The allies we gain by victory, will turn against us upon the bare whisper of our defeat.
More from Napoleon Bonaparte
- The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
- The aristocracy has the advantage of concentrating the power of Government into less dangerous hands than those of the ignorant multitude.
- Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
- The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.
- 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…
- The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
- Stupidity is not a handicap in politics.
- The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.