28 Quotes About Napoleon-bonaparte

50 Cent is a master player at power, a kind of hip-hop Napoleon Bonaparte.

I love power like a musician loves music.

Napoleon, when hearing about Laplace's latest book, said, 'M. Laplace, they tell me you have written this large book on the system of the universe, and have never even mentioned its creator.'Laplace responds, 'Je n'avais pas besoin de cette hypothèse-là. (I had no need of that hypothesis.)

A large stone was then lowered down on the grave, and covered the moderate space now sufficient for the man for whom Europe was once too little.

And, Your Majesty, he was afraid to tell you, but … secretly, he was a Pisces.

This society [Jesuits] has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution, or Napoleon's despotism or ideology. It has obstructed the progress of reformation and the improvement of the human mind in society much longer and more fatally.{Letter to Thomas Jefferson, November 4, 1816. Adams wrote an anonymous 4 volume work on the destructive history of the Jesuits}

The reading of history very soon made me feel that I was capable of achieving as much as the men who are placed in the highest ranks of our annals.

I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me.

But if the two countries or governments are at war, the men of science are not. That would, indeed be a civil war of the worst description: we should rather, through the instrumentality of the men of science soften the asperities of national hostility.{Davy's remarks to Thomas Poole on accepting Napoleon's prize for the best experiment on Galvanism.}