Quotes Tagged With :bonaparte

He is not a great man. None of us are great men. We are just caught in the wave of history.

The Constitution, the National Assembly, the dynastic parties, the blue and the red republicans, the....

No king establishes a kingdom without pouring blood of a nation.

History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the....

I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me.

Amy wondered if Bonaparte could declare war on Miss Gwen alone without breaking his peace with England....

When we set about accounting for a Napoleon or a Shakespeare or a Raphael or a Wagner or an Edison or....

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

Napoleon would always be extremely fastidious when it came to other people's morals, although his own....