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
I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.
We often get in quicker by the back door than by the front.
It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne.
The only victory over love is flight.
Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.
Adversity is the midwife of genius
I hope the time is not far off when I shall be able to unite all the wise and educated men of all the countries and establish a uniform regime based on the principles of the Quran which alone are true and which alone can lead men to happiness.
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
Remember, gentlemen, what a Roman emperor said: The corpse of an enemy always smells sweet.