Famous quotes containing the words joseph, charles and/or bonaparte:
“If you tie a horse to a stake, do you expect he will grow fat? If you pen an Indian up on a small spot of earth, and compel him to stay there, he will not be contented, nor will he grow and prosper. I have asked some of the great white chiefs where they get their authority to say to the Indian that he shall stay in one place, while he sees white men going where they please. They can not tell me.”
—Chief Joseph (c. 1840–1904)
“But if that Golden Age would come again,
And Charles here rule as he before did reign;”
—Robert Herrick (1591–1674)
“As to moral courage, I have rarely met with two o’clock in the morning courage; I mean instantaneous courage.”
—Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821)