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
There are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging.
The laws of circumstance are abolished by new circumstances.
Not one cent should be raised unless it is in accord with the law.
Laws which are consistent in theory often prove chaotic in practice.
Do not talk to me of goodness, of abstract justice, of nature law. Necessity is the highest law, public welfare is the highest justice.
We are nothing but by the law.
Timid and cowardly soldiers cause the loss of a nation's independence; but pusillanimous magistrates destroy the empire of the laws, the rights of the throne, and even social order itself.
It strengthens the bonds between nations to have the same civil laws and the same monetary system.
Who saves his country violates no law.
The law, that is what makes men stay honest.
The practice of law sharpens the mind by making it narrow.
I closed the gulf of anarchy and brought order out of chaos. I rewarded merit regardless of birth or wealth, wherever I found it. I abolished feudalism and restored equality to all regardless of religion and before the law. I fought the decrepit monarchies of the Old Regime because the alternative was the destruction of all this. I purified the Revolution.
Public morals are natural complement of all laws they are by themselves an entire code.
There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.