Napoleon Bonaparte: Frases en inglés
Napoleon Bonaparte era político y militar francés. Frases en inglés.“Power is founded upon opinion.”
Fuente: Political Aphorisms, Moral and Philosophical Thoughts (1848), p. 248
Political Aphorisms, Moral and Philosophical Thoughts (1848)
“War is a lottery in which nations ought to risk nothing but small amounts.”
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
“An army of sheep, led by a lion, is better than an army of lions, led by a sheep.”
Attributed to Napoleon in Napoleon (1941) by Yevgeny Tarle, this is a variant of an ancient proverb often attributed to many military and political figures, including Alexander the Great, and the even earlier figure Chabrias (Χαβρίας).
Misattributed
“What is the government? nothing, unless supported by opinion.”
Fuente: Political Aphorisms, Moral and Philosophical Thoughts (1848), p. 242
“As a rule it is circumstances that make men.”
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
“In war one must lean on an obstacle in order to overcome it.”
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
“An army ought to be ready every moment to offer all the resistance of which it is capable.”
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
“More glorious to merit a sceptre than to possess one.”
Memoirs of Napoleon (1829-1831)
“In politics, an absurdity is not an impediment.”
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
“The superior man is never in anyone's way.”
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
“Greatness is nothing unless it be lasting.”
Political Aphorisms, Moral and Philosophical Thoughts (1848)
“Leave the Artillerymen alone, they are an obstinate lot.”
As quoted in The Dictionary of Military and Naval Quotations (1966) by Robert Heinl, Jr.
Attributed
On board H.M.S. Bellerophon (August 1815)