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
It is rare that a legislature reasons. It is too quickly impassioned.
It is not necessary to bury the truth. It is sufficient merely to delay it until nobody cares.
Great men are meteors, consuming themselves to light the world
God has given me the will and the force to overcome all obstacles.
You don't govern men who don't have religion, you shoot them.
From first to last, Jesus is the same; always the same--majestic and simple, infinitely severe and infinitely gentle.
Never depend on the multitude, full of instability and whims; always take precautions against it.
In these days the invention of printing, and the diffusion of knowledge, render historical calumnies a little less dangerous: truth will always prevail in the long run, but how slow its progress!
I marvel that whereas the ambitious dreams of my self, Caesar, and Alexander should have vanished into thin air, a Judean peasant-Jesus-s hould be able to stretch His hands across the centuries and control the destinies of men and nations.
When you have an enemy in your power, deprive him of the means of ever injuring you.
If fifty thousand men were to die for the good of the State, I certainly would weep for them, but political necessity comes before everything else.
France has more need of me than I have need of France.
My waking thoughts are all of thee. Your portrait and the remembrance of last night's delirium have robbed my senses of repose. Sweet and incomparable Josephine, what an extraordinary influence you have over my heart. Are you vexed? Do I see you sad? Are you ill at ease? My soul is broken with grief, and there is no rest for your lover.
A man made for public life and authority never takes account of personalities; he only takes account of things, of their weight and their conseqences.