Quotations From NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

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• 11.

  When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle- field, they have all one rank in my eyes.

  Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), French general, emperor. Quoted in Ralph Waldo Emerson, Representative Men, "Napoleon," (1850).
  
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• 12.

  A Constitution should be short and obscure.

  Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), French general, emperor. said at Conference of Swiss Deputies, Jan. 29, 1803.