I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.
Those who failed to oppose me, who readily agreed with me, accepted all my views, and yielded easily to my opinions, were those who did me the most injury, and were my worst enemies, because, by surrendering to me so easily, they encouraged me to go too far... I was then too powerful for any man, except myself, to injure me.
Great events ever depend but upon a single hair. The adroit man profits by everything, neglects nothing which can increase his chances; the less adroit, by sometimes disregarding a single chance, fails in everything.
An army's effectiveness depends on its size, training, experience, and morale, and morale is worth more than any of the other factors combined.
Men have their virtues and their vices, their heroisms and their perversities; men are neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but possess and practice all that there is of good and bad here below. Such is the general rule. Temperament, education, the accidents of life, are modifying factors. Outside of this, everything is ordered arrangement, everything is chance. Such has been my rule of expectation and it has usually brought me success.
You cannot treat with all the world at once.
Go Sir, gallop and don't forget that the world was made in six days. You can ask me for anything but not time.
After me, the Revolution - or, rather the ideas which formed it - will resume their course. It will be like a book from which the marker is removed, and one starts to read again at the page where one left off.
The Allied Powers having proclaimed that the Emperor Napoleon is the sole obstacle to the re-establishment of peace in Europe, he, faithful to his oath, declares that he is ready to descend from the throne, to quit France, and even to relinquish life, for the good of his country.
Age, habits of business and experience have modified many characters.
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.
From first to last, Jesus is the same; always the same--majestic and simple, infinitely severe and infinitely gentle.
Without cavalry, battles are without result.
It is not necessary to prohibit or encourage oddities of conduct which are not harmful.
A cowardly act! What do I care about that? You may be sure that I should never fear to commit one if it were to my advantage.
The spectacle of a field of battle after the combat, is sufficient to inspire Princes with the love of peace, and the horror of war.
Religion is, in fact, the dominion of the soul; it is the hope, the anchor of safety, the deliverance from evil. What a service has Christianity rendered to humanity!
A legislator must know how to take advantage of even the defects of those he wants to govern. The art consists in making others work rather than in wearing oneself out.
In time of revolution, with perseverance and courage, a soldier should think nothing impossible.
It is not by whining that one carries out the job of king.
If I had not been defeated in Acre against Jezzar Pasha of Turk. I would conquer all of the East.
Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe.
True wisdom for a general is vigorous determination.
When defending itself against another country, a nation never lacks men, but too often, soldiers.
The mind of a general ought to resemble and be as clear as the field-glass of a telescope.
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