Napoleon III quotes
-
“This vice brings in one hundred million francs in taxes every year. I will certainly forbid it at once - as soon as you can name a virtue that brings in as much revenue.”
-- Napoleon III -
“The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.”
-- Napoleon III -
“In politics evils should be remedied not revenged.”
-- Napoleon IIISource : Napoleon III (emperor of the French.) (1859). “Napoleonic ideas. Des idées napoléoniennes, tr. by J.A. Dorr”, p.41
-
“Usually, it is man who attacks; as for me, I defend myself, and I often capitulate.”
-- Napoleon IIISource : "The Mistresses : Domestic Scandals of the 19th-Century Monarchs". Book by Betty Kelen, 1993.
-
-
Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “AA Gill is Away”, p.46, Simon and Schuster
You may also like:
-
Adolf Hitler
Former Chancellor of Germany -
Adolphe Thiers
French Politician -
Alexander the Great
Military Commander -
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour
Italian Statesman -
Duke of Wellington
Former First Lord of the Treasury -
George Washington
1st U.S. President -
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Politician -
Horatio Nelson
Military Commander -
Joan of Arc
Saint -
Julius Caesar
Roman dictator -
Louis Bonaparte
King -
Louis XIV
Monarch -
Louis XVI of France
King of France -
Louis XVIII of France
Monarch -
Marie Antoinette
Queen of France -
Maximilien Robespierre
Lawyer -
Napoleon Bonaparte
Military Commander -
Otto von Bismarck
Statesman