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
Napoleon Bonaparte quotes about
What a beautiful fix we are in now; peace has been declared.
France is invaded; I am leaving to take command of my troops, and, with God's help and their valor, I hope soon to drive the enemy beyond the frontier.
Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of revolution.
Soldiers, forty centuries are looking down upon you from these pyramids.
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.
Not one cent should be raised unless it is in accord with the law.
Christ alone has succeeded in so raising the mind of man towards the unseen that it become insensible to the barriers of time and space.
You think you are too intelligent to believe in God. I am not like you.
Unite for the public safety, if you would remain an independent nation.
A cowardly act! What do I care about that? You may be sure that I should never fear to commit one if it were to my advantage.
Send me 300 francs; that sum will enable me to go to Paris. There, at least, one can cut a figure and surmount obstacles. Everything tells me I shall succeed. Will you prevent me from doing so for the want of 100 crowns?
What I have done up to this is nothing. I am only at the beginning of the course I must run. Do you imagine that I triumph in Italy in order to aggrandise the pack of lawyers who form the Directory, and men like Carnot and Barras? What an idea!
The sentiment of national honor is never more than half extinguished in the French. It takes only a spark to re-kindle it.
I cannot approve of your method of operation, you proceed like a bewildered idiot, taking not the least notice of my orders.