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
A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
A soul you say? Give my pocketwatch to a savage and he'll think it has a soul.
If I were an Englishman, I should esteem the man who advised a war with China to be the greatest living enemy of my country. You would be beaten in the end, and perhaps a revolution in India would follow.
Friends must always be treated as if one day they might be enemies.
Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
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.
I have noticed in every campaign that I have fought-that there is a key segment of time, somewhere between 13 and 15 minutes in which the battle is won or lost. I focus on that segment of time, and I win.