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
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In a great nation, the majority are incapable of judging wisely of things.
For the stability of the Government, the people should have a considerable voice in the elections.
Public opinion is a mysterious and invisible power, to which everything must yield. There is nothing more fickle, more vague, or more powerful; yet capricious as it is, it is nevertheless much more often true, reasonable, and just, than we imagine.
To attach no importance to public opinion, is a proof that you do not merit its suffrage.
I tell you Wellington is a bad general, the English are bad soldiers; we will settle this matter by lunch time.
Occupation is the scythe of time.
In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.
There is no class of people so hard to manage in a state, as those whose intentions are honest, but whose consciences are bewitched.
A people that is able to say everything, becomes able to do everything. The crowd which follows me with admiration, would run with the same eagerness were I marching to the Guillotine.
Be successful! I judge men only by the results of their actions.
Morality for the upper classes, the gallows for the rabbles.
Has a man the right to kill himself? Yes, if his death harms no one and if life is an evil to him. When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
The strong are good, only the weak are wicked.
Every beggar shall be arrested. But to arrest a beggar merely in order to put him in jail would be barbarous and absurd. He should be arrested for the sole purpose of teaching him how to earn a living by his work.