Quotes About Napoleonic Wars

#1. Let those who are actually concerned with peace observe that capitalism gave mankind the longest period of peace in history - a period during which there were no wars involving the entire civilized world - from the end of the Napoleonic wars in 1815 to the outbreak of World War I in 1914.

Ayn Rand

#2. What could make the Napoleonic Wars more exciting? Dragons.

Naomi Novik

#3. The English soldier was probably the worst-treated soldier in Europe, and judging from the English casualty rates during the Napoleonic wars, English generals were more lavish with their soldiers' lives than were their French and German colleagues.

J. Christopher Herold

#4. There has never been a century that has not had a systemic war - a systemic war, meaning when the entire system convulses. From the Seven Years' War in Europe to the Napoleonic Wars of the 19th century to the World Wars, every century has one.

George Friedman

#5. The brief legal emancipation of Jews during the Napoleonic wars released unparalleled economic, professional, and cultural energies. It was though a high dam had suddenly been breached.

Amos Elon

#6. Triage on a battlefield (where the word originated in the Napoleonic Wars) came down to three choices: Those that don't need help right now, those that can survive if they get help right now and those that are probably going to die whether they get help or not.

John Ringo

#7. I went to grad school with the grand plan of getting my Ph.D. and writing weighty, Tudor-Stuart-set historical fiction - from which I emerged with a law degree and a series of light-hearted historical romances about flower-named spies during the Napoleonic wars.

Lauren Willig

#8. From Caesar's legions to the Napoleonic wars. From the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the industrial revolution to the defeat of nazism. We have helped to write European history, and Europe has helped write ours.

David Cameron

#9. Historians are lenient to those who succeed and stern to those who fail; in this, and this alone, they display strong political sense.

J. Christopher Herold

#10. When you are very rational, you may not be able to dream or live in a fairy tale.

Debasish Mridha

#11. There are no good or bad people, humans are shaped by culture.

Jacque Fresco

#12. But come bad chance
And wee joyne to it our strength
And wee teach it art and length
It selfe o'er us to advance.

John Donne

#13. Always wetweating-always wetweating!

Leo Tolstoy

#14. I was appointed by Governor Gray Davis to the Los Angeles Superior Court and by President Obama to the district court and then the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. In securing the state court appointment, I think it really helped that I had some trial experience.

Jacqueline Nguyen

#15. The only deadline is the one I give myself.

Mark Thomas

#16. The war against Napoleon was won not by England but by Russia, Austria, and Prussia; but England won the last battle and she won the peace.

J. Christopher Herold

#17. Kissing girls is easy, like breaking windows.

Joey Comeau

#18. A positive can always be found in anything that is faced as long as the correct attitude can be maintained.

Steven Redhead