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
Malice delights to blacken the characters of prominent men.
Lead the ideas of your time and they will accompany and support you; fall behind them and they drag you along with them; oppose them and they will overwhelm you.
Laws which are consistent in theory often prove chaotic in practice.
It must be recognized that the real truths of history are hard to discover. Happily, for the most part, they are rather matters of curiosity than of real importance.
It is only by prudence, wisdom, and dexterity that great ends are attained and obstacles overcome. Without these qualities nothing succeeds.
It is often in the audacity, in the steadfastness, of the general that the safety and the conservation of his men is found.
The Concordat is not the victory of any one party but the consolidation of all.
It is not by whining that one carries out the job of king.
Nothing is so contrary to military rules as to make the strength of your army known, either in the orders of the day, in proclamations, or in the newspapers.
Obedience to public authority ought not to be based either on ignorance or stupidity.
I am a soldier and accustomed to risking my life every day. I am full of the fire of youth; I cannot act with the restraint of an accomplished diplomat.
In the last analysis, one must be a military man in order to govern. It is only with boot and spurs that one can govern a horse.
When I had the honor to be a second lieutenant, I ate dry bread, but I never let anyone know that I was poor.
Unavailable wars are always just.