Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
After me, the Revolution - or, rather the ideas which formed it - will resume their course. It will be like a book from which the marker is removed, and one starts to read again at the page where one left off.
Herold, J. Christopher, ed. The Mind of Napoleon: A Selection from His Written and Spoken Words. Columbia University Press, 1955, p. 64.
Khrushchev did not originate this quotation. It was first stated by Lenin. See {620087}.
Tragically, the world paid a terrible price for the German upheaval before the better world finally emerged.
As humans develop, their mental innovations and understanding of justice, fairness, freedom and standard of living in turn drive their political ideology which in turn drives most revolutions as Humboldt postulated. And this is before he had the example of the French and Russian Revolutions much less the revolutions of South America, Asia and the fall of the Soviet Union.
1st Baron Macaulay. FDR used the latter part of the quotation in a speech to the Democratic State Convention, Syracuse, NY, September 29, 1936.
Napoléon Bonaparte was a French military and political leader of Corsican descent. He rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the Revolutionary Wars. As Napoleon I, he was Emperor of the French from 1804 until 1814, and again in 1815. Napoleon dominated European and global affairs for more than a decade while leading France against a series of coalitions in the Napoleonic Wars. He won most of these wars and the vast majority of his battles, building a large empire that ruled over continental Europe before its final collapse in 1815. One of the greatest commanders in history, his wars and campaigns are studied at military schools worldwide. He remains one of the most celebrated and controversial political figures in human history.
