Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

History has been the history of warfare.

Oh, go in anywhere Colonel, go in anywhere. You'll find lovely fighting all along the line.

War is the science of destruction.

War is the trade of Kings.

To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

Wars ruin armies.

I do not fear war, it is my trade.

When the militias came to Wau, they would blast out 'Thriller' as they moved down the dirt streets.

Armies for the preservation of peace do not exist; they exist only for the triumphant exertion of war.

What the country needs is the annihilation of the enemy.

It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.

Perhaps my dynamite plants will put an end to war sooner than your [pacifist] congresses. On the day two army corps can annihilate each other in one second all civilized nations will recoil from war in horror.

Armies are a purely human invention. Most soldiers who go to war nowadays don't even do it because they're inherently aggressive.

Then, Sir, we will give them the bayonet!

For WAR, consisteth not in Battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the Will to content by Battle is sufficiently known.... So the nature of War, consisteth not in actual fighting; but in the known disposition thereto, during all the time there is no assurance to the contrary. All other time is PEACE.

We shall kill. If you have not killed at least one German a day, you have wasted that day... Do not count days; do not count miles. Count only the number of Germans you have killed.

To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war.

I like war.

I have always had a particular antagonism for the military.

Suddenly, at about ten o'clock, a dull thud sounded somewhere far away from us, and simultaneously we saw a small white round cloud about half a mile ahead of us where the shrapnel had exploded. The battle had begun.

The history of mankind is a history of war.

Instead of a few hundreds of thousands of men meeting each other in war, millions would now meet, and modern weapons would multiply manifold the power of destruction.

An army is a nation; it is one of the vices of our age.

Weapons are the tools of fear.

Killing, and nothing else, is what the army is for, and the only thing it can properly build is killers and killees.