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“Une société sans religion est comme un vaisseau sans boussole”
Allocution aux curés de Milan, 5 juin 1800
Sur la religion
“C'est à ma mère que je dois toute ma fortune et tout ce que j'ai fait de bien.”
Citation prononcée à Saint-Hélène
Sur sa famille, Letizia Bonaparte
Lettre du 30 juillet 1806 de Napoléon à son frère Joseph, lors de l'accession de celui-ci au trône de Naples en 1806
“En amour, la seule victoire, c'est la fuite.”
Extrait des Maximes et pensées.
Sur la religion
“Voilà le soleil d'Austerlitz!”
[7, septembre, 1812] , Napoléon à ses troupes avant la bataille de la Moskova (Borodino) afin de galvaniser ses hommes et les pousser à rééditer leur exploit de 1805 à Austerlitz.
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Napoléon Bonaparte: Citations en anglais
“Wherever wood can swim, there I am sure to find this flag of England.”
Statement at Rochefort (July 1815)
Italian saying, quoted by Bonaparte during the first Italian campaign to highlight the financial dependence of the Directoire on the plunder from the Army of Italy, according to Lucian S. Regenbogen, Napoléon a dit : aphorismes, citations et opinions, p. 82.
Attributed
Source: Political Aphorisms, Moral and Philosophical Thoughts (1848), p. 246
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
“The completest charlatan that ever existed.”
Thomas Paine, as quoted in Thomas Paine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-670-03788-5, by Craig Nelson, p. 299.
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“Unite for the public safety, if you would remain an independent nation.”
Proclamation to the French People (22 June 1815)
Campagnes d'Egypte et Syrie, Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1998, p. 275. Translated by John Tolan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tolan in European Accounts of Muhammad's Life http://www.academia.edu/1834648/European_Accounts_of_Muhammads_Life. Napoleon wrote his memoirs on the island of Saint Helena. It is here he develops his portrait of Muhammad as a model lawmaker and conqueror.
“There is only one favorable moment in war; talent consists in knowing how to seize it.”
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
“Sometimes a great example is necessary to all the public functionaries of the state.”
Source: Political Aphorisms, Moral and Philosophical Thoughts (1848), p. 248
“He who fears being conquered is certain of defeat.”
Source: Political Aphorisms, Moral and Philosophical Thoughts (1848), p. 146
In a statement about Jesus Christ. While exiled on the rock of St. Helena, Napoleon called Count Montholon to his side and asked him, "Can you tell me who Jesus Christ was?" Upon the Count declining to respond Napoleon countered. Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods http://books.google.com/books?id=jSI9HnMHdPsC&pg=PA149&lpg=PA149&dq=napoleon+jesus+among+gods&source=bl&ots=CdsDSjamnm&sig=K3l7Ek972r7pyEFT681lbf3PVSQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=nBqhUf3RL4au9AS37ICwCQ&ved=0CBYQ6AEwAA, p. 149, in Henry Parry Liddon (1868) The Divinity of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; Eight Lectures. New edition. https://books.google.com/books?id=IcINAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA148&dq#v=onepage&q&f=false pp. 147-148, and in Henry Parry Liddon (1869) The Divinity of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; Eight Lectures. Fourth edition. https://ia800203.us.archive.org/15/items/divinityofourlord00libbrich/divinityofourlord00libbrich.pdf pp. 147-148.
Attributed
Said after Dupont's capitulation at w:Bailén to the Spanish (1808), as quoted in The Art of Warfare on Land (1974) by David G. Chandler, p. 164
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
Statement on his relations with the Empress Josephine (19 May 1816), quoted in The Story of Civilization (1935) by Will Durant and Ariel Durant, p. 234
“Ordinary men died, men of iron were taken prisoner: I only brought back with me men of bronze.”
Statement of 1812, quoted in Napoleon's Cavalry and its Leaders (1978) by David Johnson
Les hommes ordinaires ont succombé, disait-il; les hommes de fer ont été faits prisonniers; je ne ramène avec moi que les hommes de bronze.
Mémoires du colonel Combe sur les campagnes de Russie 1812, de Saxe 1813, de France 1814 et 1815. Paris 1853. p. 184 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=KhlYAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA184
“In order not to be astonished at obtaining victories, one ought not to think only of defeats.”
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
Tighe Hopkins in The Women Napoleon Loved
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“My most splendid campaign was that of March 20; not a single shot was fired.”
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)