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• In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power. The unwise destroy themselves in resistance. The skillful accept events, take strong hold of them and direct them.

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  Strong, Events, Resistance

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

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• Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.

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  Thank You, Veterans Day, Memorial Day

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• Sire, I am my own Rudolph of Hapsburg.

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  Rudolph, Ancestry, My Own

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Book by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1922.

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• Do you wish to find out the really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.

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  Bible, Prayer, Biblical

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• I have destroyed the enemy merely by marches.

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  War, Enemy, March

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• A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

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  Atheist, Men, Wish

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• The allies we gain by victory will turn against us upon the bare whisper of our defeat.

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  Military, War, Victory

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• I am a monarch of God's creation, and you reptiles of the earth dare not oppose me. I render an account of my government to none save God and Jesus Christ.

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  Jesus, Army, Government

  "The life of Napoleon Bonaparte, emperor of the French: with a preliminary view of the French revolution" by Sir Walter Scott, Philadelphia: Leary & Getz, (p. 91), 1857.

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• When I want any, good head work done; I always choose a man, if possible with a long nose.

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  Men, Long, Quality

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• I know men; and I tell you that Jesus Christ is not a man. Superficial minds see a resemblance between Christ and the founders of empires, and the gods of other religions. That resemblance does not exist. There is between Christianity and whatever other religions the distance of infinity.

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  Jesus, Distance, Men

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• Surely in a matter of this kind we should endeavor to do something, that we may say that we have not lived in vain, that we may leave some impress of ourselves on the sands of time.

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  Time, May, Matter

  Letter of to his Minister of the Interior on the Poor Laws. Pub. in The Press, February 1, 1868.

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• The division of labor, which has brought such perfection in mechanical industries, is altogether fatal when applied to productions of the mind. All work of the mind is superior in
  proportion as the mind that produces it is universal.

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  Division Of Labor, Perfection, Mind

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

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• The best medicine against the grapes of wrath is a whiff of grapeshot

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  Wrath, Medicine, Grapes

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• A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. Men are moved by only two mechanisms: fear and self-interest. Victory belongs to the most persevering.

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  Fighting, Men, Rights

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• In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power.

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  Events, Invincible

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

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• Better to have a known enemy than a forced ally.

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  War, Enemy, Allies

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• What a beautiful fix we are in now; peace has been declared.

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  Beautiful, Peace, Has Beens

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• In the last analysis, one must be a military man in order to govern. It is only with boot and spurs that one can govern a horse.

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  Horse, Military, Men

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• Equality should be the chief basis of the education of youth.

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  Youth, Should, Chiefs

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• An army travels on its stomach. Soup makes the soldier.

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  Army, Soldier, Soup

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• If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

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  God, Atheist, Religion

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

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  Eye, Fire, Baptized In

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• The art of land warfare is an art of genius, of inspiration. On the sea nothing is genius or inspiration; everything is positive or empiric.

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  Art, War, Inspiration

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• A man occupied with public or other important business cannot, and need not, attend to spelling.

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  Men, Important, Needs

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• Unity of command is essential to the economy of time. Warfare in the field was like a siege: by directing all one's force to a single point a breach might be made, and the equilibrium of opposition destroyed.

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  War, Unity, Might

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