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[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

Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon, you all had great moments, but you never tasted the supreme triumph; you were never a farm boy riding in from…

— Grant Wood

“The mightiest kings have had their minions; Great Alexander loved Hephaestion, The conquering Hercules for Hylas wept; And for Patroclus, stern Achilles drooped. And…

— Christopher Marlowe

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

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

There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men. Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities, such as…

— Lord Acton

A man who has built a world empire with only ideas and with love, not with swords and with archers, is the greatest amongst…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators, save only he,Did that they did in envy of Caesar;He only, in a…

— William Shakespeare

I would rather be the first man in a barbarian village than the second man in Rome.

— Julius Caesar

“As a famous historian once said, in all its history, Rome deigned to fear two people; one was Hannibal, the other was a woman.”

— Karen Essex

Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men.

— Horace Mann

With a little more deliberation in the choice of their pursuits, all men would perhaps become essentially students and observers, for certainly their nature…

— Henry David Thoreau