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
Morality for the upper classes, the gallows for the rabbles.
There is no class of people so hard to manage in a state, as those whose intentions are honest, but whose consciences are bewitched.
The true policy of government is to make use of aristocracy, but under the forms and in the spirit of democracy.
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.
When you fight, fight as if everything depended on you. When you pray, pray as if everything depended on God.
Every soldier carries a marshall's baton in his pack.
Mon cher, you are a simpleton. You really don't understand a thing.
Men of genius are meteors intended to burn to light their century.
Battles are lost or won in 15 minites
Since the people eats every day, it should be allowed to work every day
Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions
Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.
Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence
Revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets