Conversations avec General Bertrand à St. Helena
Napoleon Bonaparte Berühmte Zitate
Vor der Schlacht bei den Pyramiden, 21. Juli 1798
Original franz.: "Soldats, songez que du haut de ces pyramides quarante siècles vous contemplent!"
Brief an Talleyrand vom 12. März 1807, zitiert bei Hugo Friedrich Philipp Johann Freiherr von Freytag-Loringhoven: Die Heerführung Napoleons in ihrer Bedeutung für unsere Zeit (1910) S. 27 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=4MkJAAAAIAAJ&q=Kinderspiel
"Aujourd'hui le sort de l'Europe et les plus grands calculs dépendent des subsistances. Battre les Russes, si j'ai du pain, c'est un enfantillage." - Correspondance (1863) p. 432 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=z63SAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA432&dq=enfantillage
„Vom Erhabenen zum Lächerlichen ist nur ein Schritt.“
10. Dezember 1812 in Warschau, nach Friedrich Saalfeld: Geschichte Napoleon Buonaparte's. 2. Band. F. A. Brockhaus 1817 S. 477 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=KOBBAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA477&dq=Erhabenen & 479
Original franz.: "Du sublime au ridicule il n'y a qu'un pas." - Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon 1906 bei zeno.org http://www.zeno.org/nid/20006523668
Napoleon Bonaparte: Zitate auf Englisch
“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.
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Quelle: 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.”
Quelle: Political Aphorisms, Moral and Philosophical Thoughts (1848), p. 248
“He who fears being conquered is certain of defeat.”
Quelle: 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.
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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)