Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes - Page 18

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• There is no power without justice.

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  Power, Justice, Politics

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• If fifty thousand men were to die for the good of the State, I certainly would weep for them, but political necessity comes before everything else.

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  Power, Men, Political

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• There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear.

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  Courage, Motivation, Fear

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• There is only one favorable moment in war; talent consists in knowing how to seize it.

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  War, Knowing, Talent

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

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• I want the whole of Europe to have one currency; it will make trading much easier.

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  Europe, Want, Currency

  Letter to Louis Bonaparte, 6 May 1807

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• Alexander, Charlemagne and myself all tried to found an empire on force and we failed. Jesus Christ is building an empire on love, and today there are millions of people who would gladly die for His sake.

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  Jesus, Inspiration, People

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• Character is victory organized.

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  Character, Victory, Thrive

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• People take England on trust, and repeat that Shakespeare is the greatest of all authors. I have read him: there is nothing that compares Racine or Corneille: his plays are unreadable, pitiful.

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  Reading, Play, People

  Napoleon Bonaparte (2008). “The Corsican”, p.469, Wildside Press LLC

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• Generals are not to be too scrupulous.

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• The great art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs.

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  Art, Jobs, Power

  Letter to Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot, (August 9, 1796); in "Correspondance de Napoléon Ier", Vol. 1, (p. 532), 1858.

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• They wanted me to be a Washington.

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  Political, Term Limits, Politics

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• Vengeance has no foresight.

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  Vengeance, Foresight

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• Nothing is so contrary to military rules as to make the strength of your army known, either in the orders of the day, in proclamations, or in the newspapers.

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  Military, Army, Order

  "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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• When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

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  Live Life, Men, Mediocrity

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

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• When you have resolved to fight a battle, collect your whole force. Dispense with nothing. A single battalion sometimes decides the day.

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  War, Fighting, Battle

  Napoleon Bonaparte (2012). “Napoleon's Military Maxims”, p.34, Courier Corporation

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• The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world.

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  Luxury, Bed, Thrones

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

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• What is the future? What is the past? What are we? What is the magic fluid that surrounds us and conceals the things we most need to know? We live and die in the midst of marvels.

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  Past, Magic, Needs

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• War justifies everything.

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  War, Justify

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• The logical end to defensive warfare is surrender.

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  Warfare, Surrender, Logical

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• The most insupportable of tyrannies is that of inferiors.

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  Tyranny, Inferiors

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• We are born, we live, we die among supernatural.

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  Mystery, Wonder, Born

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• War is 90% information.

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  War, Data, Information

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• When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

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  Commitment, Power, Politics

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• The life of a citizen is the property of his country.

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  Country, Citizens, Property

  "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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• Those who are free from common prejudices acquire others.

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  Prejudice, Common, Acquire

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

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