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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

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

Napoleon is a torrent which as yet we are unable to stem. Moscow will be the sponge that will suck him dry.


Mikhail Kutuzov


#him #moscow #napoleon #sponge #stem

The Allies had made war on Napoleon as a tyrant and an oppressor of nations; yet once they had got him out of the way, they did him the favor of representing him as the torchbearer of the French Revolution. They did him the further favor of repeating his mistakes and besting him at them.


J. Christopher Herold


#napoleon #age

Napoleon, who had an aversion to the moral laxity of the eighteenth century, which he blamed on the domination of society by women, was determined to reform family life on Roman, or perhaps rather on Corsican, principles. It was with him, not with Queen Victoria, that Victorian morality originated.


J. Christopher Herold


#napoleon #women #women-s-rights #age

His [Pitt's] successor as prime minister was Mr. Addington, who was a friend of Mr. Pitt, just as Mr. Pitt was a friend of Mr. Addington; but their respective friends were each other's enemies. Mr. Fox, who was Mr. Pitt's enemy (although many of his friends were Mr. Pitt's friends), had always stood uncompromisingly for peace with France and held dangerously liberal opinions; nevertheless, in 1804, Mr. Fox and Mr. Pitt got together to overthrow Mr. Pitt's friend Mr. Addington, who was pushing the war effort with insufficient vigor.


J. Christopher Herold


#napoleonic-wars #william-pitt #age

The right-wing Tories and the conservative Whigs fought Napoleon as the Usurper and the Enemy of the Established Order; the liberal Tories and the radical Whigs fought him as the Betrayer of the Revolution and the Enslaver of Europe; they were all agreed in fighting him, and his notion that their disagreement signified national disunion was mere wishful thinking. All dictators since his time have fallen into the same trap: themselves blind to the values of liberty, they cannot conceive that people who disagree on its meaning can nevertheless unite in upholding their freedoms against patent despotism.


J. Christopher Herold


#liberty #napoleon #napoleonic-wars #tories #whigs

Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.


A. J. P. Taylor


#how #iii #learned #like #make






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