Quote

I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Napoleon Bonaparte
Age: 52 †
Born: 1769
Born: January 1
Died: 1821
Died: January 1
Art Collector
Emperor
Militant
Military Leader
Military Officer
Politician
Sovereign
Statesman
Statesperson
Aiacciu
Napoléon Bonaparte
Le Petit Caporal
Le Corse
Napoleone di Buonaparte
Napoleon I
by the Grace of God and the Constitutions
Emperor of the French and King of Italy
Empereur des Français Napoléon I
Napoleon Buonaparte
emperador dels francesos Napoleó I
Napoleone Bonaparte
Napoleone Buonaparte
Emperador de Francia Napoleón I
Napoleon I
Na
Charlemagne
Successor
Successors
Louis

More quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte

Image
Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Image
Promptly improve your accidents.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Image
I haven't known 6 days of happiness in my life.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Image
The secret of war lies in the communications.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Image
My decision to destroy the authority of the blacks in Saint Domingue (Haiti) is not so much based on considerations of commerce and money, as on the need to block for ever the march of the blacks in the world.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Image
Man, not men, is the most important consideration.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Image
We are made weak both by idleness and distrust of ourselves. Unfortunate, indeed, is he who suffers from both. If he is a mere individual he becomes nothing if he is a king he is lost.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Image
A great people may be killed, but they cannot be intimidated.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Image
There are certain things in war of which the commander alone comprehends the importance. Nothing but his superior firmness and ability can subdue and surmount all difficulties.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Image
Being in the Tuileries is not everything: what matters is to stay here.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Image
The fate of war is to be exalted in the morning, and low enough at night! There is but one step from triumph to ruin.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Image
They are the carrion birds of humanity...[speaking of the Jews] are a state within a state. They are certainly not real citizens...The evils of Jews do not stem from individuals but from the fundamental nature of these people.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Image
A great Nation should have a fixed Government, so that the death of one man should not overturn it.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Image
All men of genius, and all those who have gained rank in the republic of letters, are brothers, whatever may be the land of their nativity.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Image
The unwilling soldier will do anything to fight for a useless fabric piece of ribbon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Image
Time is the great art of man.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Image
War is 90% information.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Image
An army marches on its stomach.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Image
Once you have made up your mind, stick to it there is no longer any 'if' or 'but'.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Image
There is no such thing as an accident, only a failure to recognise the hand of fate
Napoleon Bonaparte