Alone Quote by Saul David

Napoleon, who had an aversion to the moral laxity of the eighteenth century, which he blamed on the domination of society by women, was…

— J. Christopher Herold

The history of Napoleon now becomes, for 12 momentous years, the history of mankind.

— John Holland Rose

“The leaders of the French Revolution and, subsequently, Napoleon exported the revolution to these lands, destroying absolutism, ending feudal land relations, abolishing guilds, and…

— Daron Acemoğlu

“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

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

“If the empire were to collapse, I should personally feel extremely sad. I absolutely do not believe that the personal rule of Napoleon III…

— Franz Liszt

To the very last, he [Napoleon] had a kind of idea; that, namely, of la carrière ouverte aux talents, - the tools to him…

— John Keats

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

— Michel Houellebecq

“One by one, Napoleon's armies toppled the ancient monarchies of Europe. The French believed the great ideals of their Republic-liberty, equality, and fraternity-were universal…

— David S. Kidder

For thus the royal mandate ran, When first the human race began, "The social, friendly honest man, Whate'er he be, Tis he fulfils great…

— Robert Burns

He[Napoleon] had destroyed only one thing: the Jacobin Revolution, the dream of equality, liberty and fraternity, and of the people rising in its majesty…

— Eric Hobsbawm

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson