Education Quote by Matthew Simpson

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

— Matthew Simpson

Washington was a typical American. Napoleon was a typical Frenchman, but Lincoln was a humanitarian as broad as the world. He was bigger than…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

Washington was a typical American. Napoleon was a typical Frenchman, but Lincoln was a humanitarian as broad as the world. He was bigger than…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

Bonaparte knew but one merit, and rewarded in one and the same way the good soldier, the good astronomer, the good poet, the good…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Napoleon bullied and deceived Jefferson and his successor James Madison because America was impotent. Without fleets and armies, their arguments about international law and…

— Andrew Lambert

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

— Mark Twain

Between Napoleon and his army, always choose Napoleon; because He can create another army, but his army cannot create a Napoleon!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

From the hindsight of history George Washington seems larger than life, more statuesque than man. Too bad! Washington's greatness as a leader was courage…

— John Baldoni

[Napoleon has now] surpassed...Alexander & Caesar, not to mention the great advantage he has over them in the Cause he fights in.

— Charles James Fox

Active people don't change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world history than Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

— Michel Houellebecq

“Broadly put, philosophers think: politicians maneuver. Jefferson's genius was that he was both and could do both, often simultaneously. Such is the art of…

— Jon Meacham

Brains and character rule the world. The most distinguished Frenchman of the last century said: Men succeed less by their talents than their character.…

— Wendell Phillips