Napoleon's Maxims & Quotes

On Opinion

• The crowd which follows me with admiration, would run with the same eagerness were I marching to the Guillotine.
  
  
• The public spirit is in the hands of the man who knows how to make use of it.
  
  
• Public esteem is the recompense of honest men.
  
  
• Public opinion is a mysterious and invisible power, to which everything must yield. There is nothing more fickle, more vague, or more powerful; yet capricious as it is, it is nevertheless much more often true, reasonable, and just, than we imagine.
  
  
• To attach no importance to public opinion, is a proof that you do not merit its suffrage.
  
  
• What is the government? Nothing, unless supported by opinion.
  
  
• Power is founded upon opinion.