Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
202
AUTHOR:
Napoleon I (1769–1821)
QUOTATION:
If I were an Englishman, I should esteem the man who advised a war with China to be the greatest living enemy of my country. You would be beaten in the end, and perhaps a revolution in India would follow.
ATTRIBUTION:
NAPOLEON.—Unverified except for its publication in The Mind of Napoleon, ed. and trans. J. Christopher Herold, p. 249 (1955). In this source the words above were from a conversation, reported in English, in 1817.
