Quotes by : J. Christopher Herold

Historians are lenient to those who succeed and stern to those who fail; in this, and this alone, they....

The popular image [in England] of Bonaparte as a blood-stained tyrant and bandit was admittedly exaggerated,....

Just as Napoleon was the sole authority in the state, so the husband and father was to exercise authority....

The right-wing Tories and the conservative Whigs fought Napoleon as the Usurper and the Enemy of the....

Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster.

Napoleon loved only himself, but, unlike Hitler, he hated nobody.

His [Pitt's] successor as prime minister was Mr. Addington, who was a friend of Mr. Pitt, just as Mr.....