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
Revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets
If obedience is the result of the instinct of the masses, revolt is the result of their thought.
Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of revolution.
Variety made the Revolution. Liberty was just a pretext.
I am the signet which marks the page where the revolution has been stopped; but when I die it will turn the page and resume its course.
Revolutions are good times for soldiers of talent and courage.
Revolutions are like the most noxious dungheaps, which bring into life the noblest vegetables.
Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.
Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.
Fashion condemns us to many follies; the greatest is to make ourselves its slave
Public morals are natural complements of all laws: they are by themselves an entire code.
Put a rouge in the limelight and he will act like an honest man
The surest way to remain poor is to be honest.
Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent