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
Give me a man with a good allowance of nose, . . . when I want any good head-work done I choose a man--provided his education has been suitable--with a long nose.
The human race is governed by its imagination.
It is an approved maxim in war, never to do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that he desires it.
The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain.
The first quality of a soldier is constancy in enduring fatigue and hardship. Courage is only the second. Poverty privation and want are the school of the good soldier.
I would believe any religion that could prove it had existed since the beginning of the world. But when I see Socrates, Plato, Moses, and Mohammed I do not think there is such a one. All religions owe their origin to man.
The most difficult art is not in the choice of men, but in giving to the men chosen the highest service of which they are capable.
Strategy is the art of making use of time and space. I am less concerned about the later than the former. Space we can recover, lost time never.
The Jews are the master robbers of the modern age.
The merit of Mahomet is that he founded a religion without an inferno.
He that makes war without many mistakes has not made war very long.
Space we can recover; time never.
Liberty is a need felt by a small class of people whom nature has endowed with nobler minds than the mass of men;.... Consequently, it may be repressed with impunity. Equality, on the other hand, pleases the masses.
A general-in-chief should ask himself several times in the day, What if the enemy were to appear now in my front, or on my right, or my left?