Famous quotes containing the words napoleon bonaparte iii, napoleon bonaparte, napoleon, bonaparte and/or iii:
“The army is the true nobility of our country.”
—Napoleon Bonaparte III (1808–1873)
“The army is the true nobility of our country.”
—Napoleon Bonaparte III (1808–1873)
“Who are we? And for what are we going to fight? Are we the titled slaves of George the Third? The military conscripts of Napoleon the Great? Or the frozen peasants of the Russian Czar? No—we are the free born sons of America; the citizens of the only republic now existing in the world; and the only people on earth who possess rights, liberties, and property which they dare call their own.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)
“A Constitution should be short and obscure.”
—Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821)
“Knavery seems to be so much a the striking feature of its inhabitants that it may not in the end be an evil that they will become aliens to this kingdom.”
—George III (1738–1820)