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
We should wash our dirty linen at home.
Liberty and equality are magical words.
A nation recruits men more easily than it can retrieve its honour.
Equality should be the chief basis of the education of youth.
Nothing renders a nation so despicable as religious despotism.
Agriculture is the soul and chief support of empires; industry produces riches and the happiness of the people; exportation represents the superabundance, and good use of both.
From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
My true glory is not to have won 40 battles ... Waterloo will erase the memory of so many victories, ... But ... what will live forever, is my Civil Code.
He is almost a statesman. He lies well.
It is cowardice to commit suicide.
Wisdom and policy dictate that we must do as destiny demands and keep peace with the irresistible march of events.
Timid and cowardly soldiers cause the loss of a nation's independence; but pusillanimous magistrates destroy the empire of the laws, the rights of the throne, and even social order itself.
America is a fortunate country. She grows by the follies of our European nations.
Prussia was hatched from a cannon-ball.