Napoleon Quote by J. Christopher Herold

Napoleon was the best method. Dissolved all representative institutions and it decided who should rule the state with him.

— Mao Zedong

The history of ancient and modern republics had taught them that many of the evils which those republics suffered arose from the want of…

— Alexander Hamilton

“On the morning of March 4, in an extraordinary sequence of events, the House approved the bill right before the noon deadline. Senators had…

— Ron Chernow

“ANOTHER GALAXY, ANOTHER TIME. The Old Republic was the Republic of legend, greater than distance or time. No need to note where it was…

— George Lucas

“Upon his appointment to the Consulate, Napoleon famously declared, “We have finished the romance of the Revolution. We must now begin its history, only…

— Henry Freeman

“Meanwhile, Napoleon’s younger brother, Lucien Bonaparte, had managed to get himself elected to the Council of Five Hundred—and was even made its president. The…

— Tom Reiss

In the circumstances in which the Republic finds itself, the constitution cannot be inaugurated; it would destroy itself. The provisional government of France is…

— Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

“To this declaration they added a definite act of sovereignty which trespassed upon and contradicted the legal authority of the Crown. True, the motion…

— Hilaire Belloc

The framers of the Constitution realized that . . . there needed to be some guardian of the sober second thought, and so they…

— Elihu Root

The Allies had made war on Napoleon as a tyrant and an oppressor of nations; yet once they had got him out of the…

— J. Christopher Herold

The Allies had made war on Napoleon as a tyrant and an oppressor of nations; yet once they had him out of the way,…

— J. Christopher Herold

“we also see two things that are very salient for Napoleon –   1. Whenever he saw an opportunity, he immediately felt a strong…

— Sebastian Marshall