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I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for freedom and for the moral well-being of man.

I had always been fascinated with Napoleon because he was a self-made emperor; Victor Hugo said, 'Napoleon's will to power,' and it was the title of my paper. And I submitted it to my teacher, and he didn't think I had written it. And he wanted me to explain it to him.

Some friends said they weren't surprised to find out Napoleon and I were related, but it came as quite a shock to me.

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

Only to he avoid misunderstandings, I must say that even last year, when I wrote my pamphlet, I heartily wished that Prussia should declare war against Napoleon.

I got a dog with a Napoleon complex. I have a Napoleon complex. We're small. Anything big that we feel is threatening us, we want to fight. We're not a pushover.

Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil.

Let no one refer to the sword of Napoleon I as the instrument of progress and civilization!

I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any field of human activity.

All I did was basically play myself in the role of Napoleon Solo.