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
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.
Public esteem is the recompense of honest men.
Public opinion is a mysterious and invisible power, to which everything must yield. There is nothing more fickle, more vague, or more powerful; yet capricious as it is, it is nevertheless much more often true, reasonable, and just, than we imagine.
To attach no importance to public opinion, is a proof that you do not merit its suffrage.
When I want any, good head work done; I always choose a man, if possible with a long nose.
I tell you Wellington is a bad general, the English are bad soldiers; we will settle this matter by lunch time.
Occupation is the scythe of time.
Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.
A fool is only troublesome, a pedant insupportable.
Be successful! I judge men only by the results of their actions.