Napoleon Quotes

French military leader, French Emperor 1804–1814 and again in 1815 (1769–1821)

Napoléon Bonaparte (15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821) was a French military general who rose dramatically up the ranks of the French Army during the French Revolution, becoming the ruler of France as First Consul of the French Republic (11 November 1799 - 18 May 1804), and then Emperor of the French and King of Italy under the name Napoleon I (18 May 1804 - 6 April 1814, and again briefly from 20 March - 22 June 1815). He died in exile on the island of Saint Helena.

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Native Name: Napulione Buonaparte

Alternative Names: Napoléon Bonaparte • Napoleone di Buonaparte • Empereur des Français Napoléon I • Napoleon Buonaparte • Napoleone Bonaparte • Napoleone Buonaparte • Napoleon I • the Corsican Napolean • The Little Corporal • Napulione di Buonaparte • Napoleon I of France • Napoleone I • Little Corporal • Emperador dels Francesos Napoleó I • Napoleon Bonaparte

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Immortality is the best recollection one leaves.

What is a throne? — a bit of wood gilded and covered in velvet. I am the state — I alone am here the representative of the people. Even if I had done wrong you should not have reproached me in public — people wash their dirty linen at home. France has more need of me than I of France.

Those who receive the most images into their memories have the most lively imaginations.

Revolutions are ideal times for soldiers with a lot of wit — and the courage to act.

There are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging.

La stratégie est l'art de faire usage du temps et de l'espace. Je suis moins avare de celui-ci que du premier. L'espace, on peut le récupérer ; le temps perdu, jamais.

France will always be a great nation.

In war, character and opinion make more than half of the reality.

Hand weapons were the main weapons of the ancients; it is with his short sword that the legionary conquered the world. It is with the Macedonian lance that Alexander conquered Asia.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

I have fought sixty battles and I have learned nothing which I did not know at the beginning.

To listen to the interests of all, marks an ordinary government; to foresee them, marks a great government.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

There are two levers for moving man — interest and fear.

The moral is to the physical as three is to one