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It represents the point at which Napoleon came closest to winning the battle of Waterloo, so it's an amazing discovery. – Tony Pollard	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It's a historic moment not only for me but for I think for our two countries, napoleon was one of the last people to see him alive which is very important, and he's the first general from the Napoleonic period that we have found. – Pierre Malinovsky	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I think it would be very bizarre if the EU should decide on their own... if they decided to impose tariffs on goods coming from the UK it would be... a return to Napoleon's continental system. – Boris Johnson	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I used to say of him that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men. (about Napoleon) – Arthur Wellesley	added by TrekReichen 5 years ago
My enemies are many, my equals are none. In the shade of olive trees, they said Italy could never be conquered. In the land of Pharaohs and Kings, they said Egypt could never be humbled. In the realm of forest and snow, they said Russia could never be tamed. Now they say nothing. They fear me, like a force of nature, a dealer in thunder and death! I say: I am Napoleon, I am Emperor. (Napoleon: Total War) – Napoleon Bonaparte	added by TrekReichen 5 years ago
Napoleon, Hitler, various people tried this out, and it ends tragically, the EU is an attempt to do this by different methods. But fundamentally what is lacking is the eternal problem, which is that there is no underlying loyalty to the idea of Europe. – Boris Johnson	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Napoleon, Hitler, various people tried this out, and it ends tragically, dEMOCRATIC VOID. – Boris Johnson	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
It was the road Napoleon took north to Paris via Grenoble for his big comeback, it's historically unique and easy to navigate, and those who attempt it will get superb vistas over the surrounding countryside of glorious Provence and the Riviera. – Eric Dore	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Napoleon, for instance, had himself carved naked in that tradition, the contradictory attitude is there right from the beginning. We want to see it. We don't want to see it. We hate it. We love it. – Philip Carr-Gomm	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this. – Alexander Herzen	added by anonymous 9 years ago
High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering the sequence of generations a relay race in which everyone surpasses his predecessor, only to be surpassed by his successor. Without this relay race called history there would be no European art and what characterizes it: a longing for originality, a longing for change. Robespierre, Napoleon, Beethoven, Stalin, Picasso, they're all runners in the relay race, they all belong to the same stadium. – Milan Kundera	added by anonymous 10 years ago
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs. – Aldous Huxley	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Anyone who clings to the historically untrue - and thoroughly immoral - doctrine that violence never settles anything I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler would referee. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forgot this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and there freedoms. – Robert Heinlein	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.N.B. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. See also Napoleon Bonaparte. – Plato	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it. – Ted Morgan	added by anonymous 14 years ago
History is powerful stuff. One day your world is fine. The next day it's knocked for a metaphysical loop. Was Napoleon really at Waterloo Would that change what I had for breakfast – Henry Bromel	added by anonymous 14 years ago

It represents the point at which Napoleon came closest to winning the battle of Waterloo, so it's an amazing discovery.

– Tony Pollard

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It's a historic moment not only for me but for I think for our two countries, napoleon was one of the last people to see him alive which is very important, and he's the first general from the Napoleonic period that we have found.

– Pierre Malinovsky

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I think it would be very bizarre if the EU should decide on their own... if they decided to impose tariffs on goods coming from the UK it would be... a return to Napoleon's continental system.

– Boris Johnson

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I used to say of him that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men. (about Napoleon)

– Arthur Wellesley

added by TrekReichen
5 years ago

My enemies are many, my equals are none. In the shade of olive trees, they said Italy could never be conquered. In the land of Pharaohs and Kings, they said Egypt could never be humbled. In the realm of forest and snow, they said Russia could never be tamed. Now they say nothing. They fear me, like a force of nature, a dealer in thunder and death! I say: I am Napoleon, I am Emperor. (Napoleon: Total War)

– Napoleon Bonaparte

added by TrekReichen
5 years ago

Napoleon, Hitler, various people tried this out, and it ends tragically, the EU is an attempt to do this by different methods. But fundamentally what is lacking is the eternal problem, which is that there is no underlying loyalty to the idea of Europe.

– Boris Johnson

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Napoleon, Hitler, various people tried this out, and it ends tragically, dEMOCRATIC VOID.

– Boris Johnson

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

It was the road Napoleon took north to Paris via Grenoble for his big comeback, it's historically unique and easy to navigate, and those who attempt it will get superb vistas over the surrounding countryside of glorious Provence and the Riviera.

– Eric Dore

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Napoleon, for instance, had himself carved naked in that tradition, the contradictory attitude is there right from the beginning. We want to see it. We don't want to see it. We hate it. We love it.

– Philip Carr-Gomm

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.

– Alexander Herzen

added by anonymous
9 years ago

High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering the sequence of generations a relay race in which everyone surpasses his predecessor, only to be surpassed by his successor. Without this relay race called history there would be no European art and what characterizes it: a longing for originality, a longing for change. Robespierre, Napoleon, Beethoven, Stalin, Picasso, they're all runners in the relay race, they all belong to the same stadium.

– Milan Kundera

added by anonymous
10 years ago

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

– Aldous Huxley

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Anyone who clings to the historically untrue - and thoroughly immoral - doctrine that violence never settles anything I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler would referee. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forgot this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and there freedoms.

– Robert Heinlein

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.N.B. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. See also Napoleon Bonaparte.

– Plato

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.

– Ted Morgan

added by anonymous
14 years ago

History is powerful stuff. One day your world is fine. The next day it's knocked for a metaphysical loop. Was Napoleon really at Waterloo Would that change what I had for breakfast

– Henry Bromel

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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