#napoleon

Only to he avoid misunderstandings, I must say that even last year, when I wrote my pamphlet, I heartily wished that Prussia should declare war against Napoleon. ↗

— Ferdinand Lassalle

#avoid #declare #even #heartily #i

I get more people approaching me about how good I was in 'Napoleon Dynamite' than being in Coldplay. ↗

— Chris Martin

#approaching #being #coldplay #dynamite #get

Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

#education #equal #his #intellect #least

Washington and the elder Napoleon. Both were brave men; both were true men; both loved their country and dared to expose their lives for their country's cause. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

#brave #brave men #cause #country #dared

War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize "world peace" even when we get it. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#any #even #get #however #just

To some it is Napoleon, to some it is a philosophical struggle, to me it is allegro con brio. ↗

— Arturo Toscanini

#me #napoleon #philosophical #some #struggle

Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French were driven out, they stopped and sold this big chunk of North America to the Americans for very little money. ↗

— Edwidge Danticat

#america #army #been #big #chunk

There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#century #great #great man #great thing #let us

A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#god #les-miserables #napoleon #science-fiction #science

Your Excellency, I have no need of this hypothesis. ↗

— Pierre Laplace

#atheist #god #humor #mathematics #napoleon