Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes - Page 15

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• You cannot stop me; I spend thirty thousand men a month.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Men, Months

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• More glorious to merit a sceptre than to possess one.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Merit, Glorious

  "Memoirs of Napoleon" published by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, (1829-1831).

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• Washington is dead! This great man fought against Tyranny; he established the liberty of his country. His memory will always be dear to the French people, as it will be to all free men of the two worlds; and especially to French soldiers, who, like him and the American soldiers, have combated for liberty and equality.

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  Country, Memories, Men

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• To negotiate is not to do as one likes.

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  Power, Politics, Likes

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• We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

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  Sympathy, Men, Laughing

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• The affairs of war, like the destiny of battles, as well as empires, hang upon a spiders thread.

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  War, Destiny, Battle

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• The secret of great battles consists in knowing how to deploy and concentrate at the right time.

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  Time, Knowing, Secret

  "Napoleon : In His Own Words" edited by Jules Bertaut, translated by Herbert Edward Law and Charles Lincoln Rhodes, (Ch. VII), 1916.

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• He that makes war without many mistakes has not made war very long.

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  Military, War, Mistake

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• Time is the great art of man.

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  Art, Men, Great Art

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• I engage and after that I see what to do.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War

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• Men are never attached to you by favours.

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  Men, Favors, Favour

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• Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Music, Wisdom, Race

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• If the Earth were a single state, Istanbul would be its capital.

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  Istanbul, Would Be, Earth

  "Istanbul: City of Majesty at the Crossroads of the World" edited by Thomas F. Madden, Penguin Random House, November 7, 2014.

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• The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.

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  Fate, Destiny, Self

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

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• In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments.

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  Peace, Military, War

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

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• To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Military, War, Soldier

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• A general must be a charlatan.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Charlatans

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

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• For the stability of the Government, the people should have a considerable voice in the elections.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Power, Government, Should Have

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• Do you know what astonished me the most in this world? The inability of force to create anything.

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  Inability, World, Force

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• Bloodletting is among the ingredients of political medicine.

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  Power, Medicine, Political

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• I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.

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  Giving, Political, Command

  "Memoirs of Count Miot de Melito (1788-1815)" translated by Frances Cashel Hoey and John Lillie, Vol. II, (p. 113), 1881.

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• No amount of money will induce someone to lay down their life, but they will gladly do so for a bit of yellow ribbon.

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  Inspiring, Moving, Heart

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• A great people may be killed, but they cannot be intimidated.

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  People, May, Great People

  "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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• To command, you must first of all speak to the eyes.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Eye, Firsts, Speak

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• I drink Champagne when I win, to celebrate...and I drink Champagne when I lose, to console myself.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Drinking, Wine, Winning

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