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
Being in the Tuileries is not everything: what matters is to stay here.
Clever policy consists in making nations believe they are free.
The most terrible of all my battles was the one before Moscow. The French showed themselves to be worthy of victory, but the Russians showed themselves worthy of being invincible.
The man fitted for affairs and authority never considers individuals, but things and their consequences.
Power is what they like - it is the greatest of all aphrodisiacs.
Posterity alone rightly judges kings. Posterity alone has the right to accord or withhold honors.
It is a mistake, too, to say that the face is the mirror of the soul. The truth is, men are very hard to know, and yet, not to be deceived, we must judge them by their present actions, but for the present only.
In war one must lean on an obstacle in order to overcome it.
After me, the Revolution - or, rather the ideas which formed it - will resume their course. It will be like a book from which the marker is removed, and one starts to read again at the page where one left off.
Those who failed to oppose me, who readily agreed with me and accepted all my views, were those who did me the most injury.
The worse the man the better the soldier. If soldiers be not corrupt they ought to be made so.
God has decreed that there be sick and poor in this world, but in the next it will be the other way around.
Give me enough ribbons to place on the tunics of my soldiers and I can conquer the world.
Do not talk to me of goodness, of abstract justice, of nature law. Necessity is the highest law, public welfare is the highest justice.