65 Quotes by Andrew Roberts

I don't want to benefit from somebody else's problems. But it's not my call to make.

The U.K. is the only front-end you should be buying.

What finally scuppered Napoleon’s Europe was of course the fatal combination of the English Channel and the Russian winter; the same unlikely partnership that also did for Hitler’s Europe.

The future is a matter of contempt for those with courage. – Napoleon Bonaparte.

More books have been written with Napoleon in the title than there have been days since his death in 1821.

The first time you meet Winston you see all his faults,’ she told him, ’and the rest of your life you spend in discovering his virtues.

Napoleon taught ordinary people that they could make history, and convinced his followers they were taking part in an adventure, a pageant, an experiment, an epic whose splendour would draw the attention of posterity for centuries to come.

It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or do in a circumstance unexpected by other people: it is reflection, meditation.

The Second World War lasted for 2,174 days, cost $1.5 trillion and claimed the lives of over 50 million people. That represents 23,000 lives lost every day, or more than six people killed every minute, for six long years.