Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes - Page 23

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• Democracy, if it is reasonable, limits itself to giving everyone an equal opportunity to compete and to obtain.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Power, Opportunity, Giving

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• It is an ambassador's duty to stand up for his nation's foreign policy in any era and under any government whatsoever. Ambassadors are, in the full meaning of the term, titled spies.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Power, Government, Spy

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• At the head of an army, nothing is more becoming than simplicity.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Army, Simplicity

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• Wherever wood can swim, there I am sure to find this flag of England.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Army, Swim, Flags

  Statement at Rochefort, July 1815.

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• God has decreed that there be sick and poor in this world, but in the next it will be the other way around.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Sick, World, Way

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• Friendship is but a name. I love no one.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Friendship, Names

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• What is a throne? - a bit of wood gilded and covered in velvet. I am the state- I alone am here the representative of the people. Even if I had done wrong you should not have reproached me in public - people wash their dirty linen at home. France has more need of me than I of France.

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  Dirty, Home, Army

  Statement to the Senate, 1814.

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• Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Leadership, Army, Society

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• What my enemies call a general peace is my destruction. What I call peace is merely the disarmament of my enemies. Am I not more moderate than they?

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Enemy, Destruction

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• The Emperor died forsaken by all, on this horrible rock. (St. Helena) His death struggle was awful!

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  Struggle, Rocks, Awful

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• Leaders deal in hope.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Leader, Deals

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• All becomes easy when we follow the current of opinion; it is the ruler of the world.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  World, Opinion, Easy

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• A leader has the right to be beaten, but never the right to be surprised.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Leader, Beaten

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• Leaders have to be dealers in hope.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Leadership, Leader, Dealer

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• A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Power, Political, Politics

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

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• There is no class of people so hard to manage in a state, as those whose intentions are honest, but whose consciences are bewitched.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Class, People, Honest

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• Conquest has made me what I am, only conquest can maintain me.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Made, Conquest

  Napoleon Bonaparte (2010). “The Corsican: The Virtual Diary of Napoleon Bonaparte”, p.131, Fireship Press

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• Brave deeds are the monuments of brave men.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Brave, Deeds

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• But it is at home and not in public that one should wash ones dirty linen.
  [Fr., Car c'est en famille, ce n'est pas en public, qu'un lave son linge sale.]

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  Dirty, Home, Son

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• A king is sometimes obliged to commit crimes; but they are the crimes of his position.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Kings, Sometimes, Crime

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

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• If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Peace, War, Want

  "Libretto for the Republic of Liberia". Book by Melvin Beaunorus Tolson, 1953.

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• The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Wise, Wisdom, Educational

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• I may have had many projects, but I never was free to carry out any of them. It did me little good to be holding the helm; no matter how strong my hands, the sudden and numerous waves were stronger still, and I was wise enough to yield to them rather than resist them obstinately and make the ship founder. Thus I never was truly my own master but was always ruled by circumstances.

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  Wise, Strong, Army

  "Mémorial de Sainte Hélène: Journal of the Private Life and Conversations of the Emperor Napoleon at Saint Helena, Part 4" by Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné comte de Las Cases, (p. 133), 1823.

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• How many seemingly impossible things have been accomplished by resolute men because they had to do, or die?

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Impossible Things, Accomplished

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

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• Great battles are won with artillery.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Battle, Artillery

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