Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes - Page 21

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• The logical end to defensive warfare is surrender.

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  Warfare, Surrender, Logical

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• Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Attitude, Circumstances

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• The bayonet has always been the weapon of the brave and the chief tool of victory

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  Military, Brave, Victory

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• A nation recruits men more easily than it can retrieve its honour.

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  Men, Recruit, Honour

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• There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

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  Sublime, Steps, Ridiculous

  Quoted in D. G. De Pradt, Histoire de l'Ambassade dans le Grand-Duche de Varsovie en 1812 (1815) See Thomas Paine 30; Warton 1

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• Life is strewn with so many dangers, and can be the source of so many misfortunes, that death is not the greatest of them.

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  Life, Inspire, Danger

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• I love a brave soldier who has undergone the baptism of fire.

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  Military, War, Fire

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• I marvel that whereas the ambitious dreams of my self, Caesar, and Alexander should have vanished into thin air, a Judean peasant-Jesus-s hould be able to stretch His hands across the centuries and control the destinies of men and nations.

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  Dream, Jesus, Destiny

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• Hereditary succession to the magistracy is absurd, as it tends to make a property of it; it is incompatible with the sovereignty of the people.

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  People, Absurd, Sovereignty

  "Political Aphorisms, Moral and Philosophical Thoughts" collected and published by Cte. A. G. de Liancourt; edited by James Alexander Manning, (p. 246), 1848.

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• Cossacks are the best light troops among all that exist. If I had them in my army, I would go through all the world with them.

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  Army, Light, Troops

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• From triumph to downfall is but a step. I have seen a trifle decide the most important issues in the gravest affairs.

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  Issues, Important, Triumph

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other. They are worse than ever when, at the termination of their punishment, they return to society.

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  Punishment, Evil, Together

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• In war, as in politics, no evil - even if it is permissible under the rules - is excusable unless it is absolutely necessary. Everything beyond that is a crime.

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  War, Power, Evil

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• Ordinary men died, men of iron were taken prisoner: I only brought back with me men of bronze.

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  Taken, Army, Men

  "Napoleon's Cavalry and its Leaders". Book by David Johnson, 1978.

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• I haven't known 6 days of happiness in my life.

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  Attitude, Havens, Known

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• An army marches on its stomach.

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  War, Food, Army

  Attributed in Wash. Post, 18 Sept. 1898. According to the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, this was "probably condensed from a long passage in E. A. de Las Cases Memorial de Ste-Helene (1823) vol. 4, 14 Nov. 1816; also attributed to Frederick the Great, in Notes and Queries 10 March 1866." The 1866 attribution to Frederick is worded "an army moves on (or by) its stomach."

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• Human life is the only thing that takes care of itself.

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  Military, Care, Life Is

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• I have never loved anyone for love's sake except, perhaps, Josephine - a little.

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  Marriage, Littles, Sake

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• It is easy to know when a government wishes for peace by observing the character of the person sent to negotiate for it.

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  Character, Government, Wish

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• War is 90% information.

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  War, Data, Information

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• My dominion ends where that of conscience begins.

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  Dominion, Ends, Conscience

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• Unite for the public safety, if you would remain an independent nation.

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  Independent, Army, Safety

  Proclamation to the French People, June 22, 1815.

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• A mathematician of the first rank, Laplace quickly revealed himself as only a mediocre administrator; from his first work we saw that we had been deceived. Laplace saw no question from its true point of view; he sought subtleties everywhere; had only doubtful ideas, and finally carried the spirit of the infinitely small into administration.

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  Work, Math, Ideas

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• In war one must lean on an obstacle in order to overcome it.

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  War, Order, Overcoming

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• The basic principle that we must follow in directing the armies of the Republic is this: that they must feed themselves on war at the expense of the enemy territory.

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  War, Army, Enemy

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