In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.
The stupid speak of the past, the wise of the present, and fools of the future.
Every hour of lost time is a chance of future misfortune.
In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
Impatience is a great obstacle to success; he who treats everything with brusqueness gathers nothing, or only immature fruit which will never ripen.
If I were to give liberty to the press, my power could not last three days.
The art of being sometimes audacious and sometimes very prudent is the secret of success.
After making a mistake or suffering a misfortune, the man of genius always gets back on his feet.
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
A woman laughing is a woman conquered.
Adversity is the midwife of genius
Half of the people in the world are below average.
There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.
No one but myself can be blamed for my fall. I have been my own greatest enemy-the cause of my own disastrous fate.
Give me an educated mother, I shall promise you the birth of a civilized, educated nation
This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment; yet he lay there deserted by all except his dog. I looked on, unmoved, at battles which decided the future of nations. Tearless, I had given orders which brought death to thousands. Yet here I was stirred, profoundly stirred, stirred to tears. And by what? By the grief of one dog. Napoleon Bonaparte, on finding a dog beside the body of his dead master, licking his face and howling, on a moonlit field after a battle. Napoleon was haunted by this scene until his own death.
Arabia was idolatrous when, six centuries after Jesus, Muhammad introduced the worship of the God of Abraham, of Ishmael, of Moses, and Jesus. The Ariyans and some other sects had disturbed the tranquility of the east by agitating the question of the nature of the Father, the son, and the Holy Ghost. Muhammad declared that there was none but one God who had no father, no son and that the trinity imported the idea of idolatry.
How can you have order in a state without religion? For, when one man is dying of hunger near another who is ill of surfeit, he cannot resign himself to this difference unless there is an authority which declares 'God wills it thus.' Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
History is written by the winners.
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
When you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna.
Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent.
I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest.
Read over and over again the campaigns of Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, Gustavus, Turenne, Eugene and Frederic. ... This is the only way to become a great general and master the secrets of the art of war.
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