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
Fashion condemns us to many follies, the greatest is to make oneself its slave.
I know men; and I tell you that Jesus Christ is not a man. Superficial minds see a resemblance between Christ and the founders of empires, and the gods of other religions. That resemblance does not exist. There is between Christianity and whatever other religions the distance of infinity...
I closed the gulf of anarchy and brought order out of chaos. I rewarded merit regardless of birth or wealth, wherever I found it. I abolished feudalism and restored equality to all regardless of religion and before the law. I fought the decrepit monarchies of the Old Regime because the alternative was the destruction of all this. I purified the Revolution.
You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them
There is no class of people so hard to manage in a state, as those whose intentions are honest, but whose consciences are bewitched.
The art of government is not to let me grow stale.
Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies.
Treaties are observed as long as they are in harmony with interests.
All becomes easy when we follow the current of opinion; it is the ruler of the world.
My business is to succeed, and I’m good at it. I create my Iliad by my actions, create it day by day.
The barbarous custom of having men beaten who are suspected of having important secrets to reveal must be abolished. It has always been recognized that this way of interrogating men, by putting them to torture, produces nothing worthwhile.
Conscription is the vitality of a nation, the purification of its morality, and the real foundations of all its habits
The bayonet has always been the weapon of the brave and the chief tool of victory
The true policy of government is to make use of aristocracy, but under the forms and in the spirit of democracy.