Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes - Page 5

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• When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Government, Leader, Bankers

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• A commander-in-chief cannot take as an excuse for his mistakes in warfare an order given by his sovereign or his minister when the person giving the order is absent from the field of operations and is imperfectly aware or wholly unaware of the latest state of affairs. It follows that any commander-in-chief who undertakes to carry out a plan which he considers defective is at fault; he must put forward his reasons, insist on the plan being changed, and finally tender his resignation rather than be the instrument of his army's downfall.

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  Faults, Reason, Instruments

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• He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

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  Attitude, Fear, War

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• The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

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  Strength, Being Strong, Communication

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• Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses; but when you have bad news, arouse me immediately, for then there is not an instant to be lost.

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  News, Journalism, Lost

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• The human race is governed by its imagination.

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  Inspiration, Carpe Diem, Race

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

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• The art of war is to gain time when your strength is inferior.

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  Art, War, Gains

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• Mankind's worst enemy is fear of work

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  Worst Enemy, Enemy, Mankind

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• The Bible is not merely a book-it is a living power. . . . Nowhere as in the Bible can be found such a series of beautiful ideas and admirable maxims which pose before us like the battalions of a celestial army. . . . The soul can never go astray while it has this book for its guide.

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  Life, Beautiful, Book

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• Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. To become a good man, one must have faithful friends, or outright enemies.

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  Inspirational, Men, Waiting

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• The Mohammedan religion is the finest of all.

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  Army, Finest

  "Talks of Napoleon at St. Helena with General Baron Gourgaud, together with the journal kept by Gourgaud on their journey from Waterloo to St Helena", (pp. 279 - 280), 1903.

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• Governments keep their promises only when they are forced, or when it is to their advantage to do so.

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  Power, Government, Promise

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• My success and everything good that I have done, I owe to my mother.

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  Mother, Done

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• Clever policy consists in making nations believe they are free.

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  Clever, Believe, Policy

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• There is no place in a fanatic's head where reason can enter.

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  Religion, Reason, Fanatics

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

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• You think you are too intelligent to believe in God. I am not like you.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Atheist, Believe, Intelligent

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• Muhammad was a prince; he rallied his compatriots around him. In a few years, the Muslims conquered half of the world. They plucked more souls from false gods, knocked down more idols, razed more pagan temples in fifteen years than the followers of Moses and Jesus did in fifteen centuries. Muhammad was a great man. He would indeed have been a god, if the revolution that he had performed had not been prepared by the circumstances.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Jesus, Army, Men

  "Campagnes d'Egypte et Syrie", Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, (p. 275), translated by John Tolan in "European Accounts of Muhammad's Life", 1998.

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• A leader is a dealer in hope.

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  Inspirational, Leadership, Encouraging

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

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• God has given me the will and the force to overcome all obstacles.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Power, Overcoming, Politics

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• Order marches with weighty and measured strides. Disorder is always in a hurry.

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  Inspirational, Patience, Order

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• Occupation is the scythe of time.

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  Time, Occupation, Scythes

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon's life in camp and cabinet, from the French of M. de Bourienne, Segur, Las Cases, &c. &c. &c”, Рипол Классик

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• Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

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  Leadership, Fear, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Force is the law of animals, men are ruled by conviction.

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  Animal, Power, Men

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• My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

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  Failure, Height, Infinite

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• Opportunities? I make opportunities.

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  Opportunity

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