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
Artillery is more essential to cavalry than to infantry, because cavalry has no fire for its defence, but depends on the sabre.
Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires.
Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age.
Man, not men, is the most important consideration.
The art of the police is not to see what it is useless that it should see.
When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.
In revolution there are only two sorts of men, those who cause them and those who profit by them.
Insubordination may only be the evidence of a strong mind.
Soldiers! Here is the battle you have so long desired! Henceforth victory depends on you; we have need of it.
The mind of a general ought to resemble and be as clear as the field-glass of a telescope.
An army must have but one line of operations. This must be maintained with care and abandoned only for major reasons.
Remember that a man, a true man, never hates. His rages and his bad moods never last beyond the present moment-like electric shocks.
A people that is able to say everything, becomes able to do everything. 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.