Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoléon Bonapartewas a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the Revolutionary Wars. As Napoleon I, he was Emperor of the French from 1804 until 1814, and again in 1815. Napoleon dominated European and global affairs for more than a decade while leading France against a series of coalitions in the Napoleonic Wars. He won most of these wars and the vast majority of his battles, building a...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionRoyalty
Date of Birth15 August 1769
CityAjaccio, France
CountryFrance
Mankind's worst enemy is fear of work
A true master of politics is able to calculate, down to the smallest fraction, the advantages to which he may put his very faults.
Governments keep their promises only when they are forced, or when it is to their advantage to do so.
Passions change, politics are immutable.
Bloodletting is among the ingredients of political medicine.
Democracy, if it is reasonable, limits itself to giving everyone an equal opportunity to compete and to obtain.
In political administration, no problem is ever simple. It can never be reduced to the question whether a certain measure is good or not.
It is an ambassador's duty to stand up for his nation's foreign policy in any era and under any government whatsoever. Ambassadors are, in the full meaning of the term, titled spies.
If we could read the past histories of all our enemies we would disregard all hostility for them.
We should always go before our enemies with confidence, otherwise our apparent uneasiness inspires them with greater boldness.
Reprisals are but a sad resource.
The English have no exaulted sentiments. They can all be bought.
Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and it is that to which the legislator ought to give the greatest encouragement.
Charges of cavalry are equally useful at the beginning, the middle and the end of a battle. They should be made always, if possible, on the flanks of the infantry, especially when the latter is engaged in front.