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
So you think the police foresees and knows everything. The police invents more than it discovers.
Men who have changed the world never achieved their success by winning the chief citizens to their side, but always by stirring the masses.
Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe.
A legislator must know how to take advantage of even the defects of those he wants to govern. The art consists in making others work rather than in wearing oneself out.
The great art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs.
Nothing is more arrogant than the weakness which feels itself supported by power.
The people excited by ambitious demagogues, sooner or later return into the hands of the Aristocracy.
A portion of the multitude must ever be coerced.
We must serve the people worthily, and not occupy ourselves in trying to please them. The best way, to gain their affections is to do them good.
Lack is more in means, than in principles.
Better to have an open enemy, than hidden friends.
A magistrate is not a father; he must be just and severe. Only tyrants are fathers.
The policies of all powers are inherent in their geography.
Pure politics is merely the calculus of combinations and of chances.