Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes - Page 32

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• Artillery is more essential to cavalry than to infantry, because cavalry has no fire for its defence, but depends on the sabre.

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  War, Fire, Essentials

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• The word impossible is not French.

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  Writing, Impossible

  "Famous Sayings and their Authors" by Edward Latham, (p. 138), 1906.

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• Charges of cavalry are equally useful at the beginning, the middle and the end of a battle. They should be made always, if possible, on the flanks of the infantry, especially when the latter is engaged in front.

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  War, Battle, Infantry

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• If it had not been for the English I should have been emperor of the East, but wherever there is water to float a ship we are sure to find them in our way.

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  Should Have, History, Water

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• Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.

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  Hands, Revolution, Republican

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• Immortality is the best recollection one leaves.

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  Immortality, Recollection

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

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• An empty throne always tempts me.

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  Thrones, Empty

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• An urgent missive sent to Josephine Home in three days. Don't wash.

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  Home, Greatest Love, Three

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• I tell you Wellington is a bad general, the English are bad soldiers; we will settle this matter by lunch time.

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  Lunch, Soldier, Matter

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• He is almost a statesman. He lies well.

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  Lying, Government, Wells

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• Policemen and prisons ought never to be the means used to bring men back to the practice of religion.

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  Mean, Men, Practice

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

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• To a father who loves his children victor has no charms. When the heart speaks, glory itself is an illusion.

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  Children, Father, Heart

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• The most constant, the most powerful, and the most generous of all my enemies.

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  Powerful, History, Enemy

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• Being in the Tuileries is not everything: what matters is to stay here.

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  What Matters, Matter

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• Soldiers! Forty centuries behold you!

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  Military, Soldier, Century

  Napoleon Bonaparte (2010). “The Corsican: The Virtual Diary of Napoleon Bonaparte”, p.63, Fireship Press

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• I shall be an Attila to Venice.

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  Venice, History

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• Men are lead by trifles.

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  Leadership, Men, Society

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• If you (to General Bertrand) do not perceive that Jesus Christ is God, very well; then I did wrong to make you a general.

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  Jesus, Christ, Wells

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• I generally had to give in.

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  Army, Giving

  Statement on his relations with the Empress Josephine (19 May 1816), quoted in "The Story of Civilization" by Will Durant and Ariel Durant, (p. 234), 1935.

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• A fool is only troublesome, a pedant insupportable.

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  Stupidity, Fool, Pedants

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• An army must have but one line of operations. This must be maintained with care and abandoned only for major reasons.

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  War, Army, Care

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• Public instruction should be the first object of government.

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  Government, Firsts, Instruction

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• Conquests will come and go but Delambre's work will endure.

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  Endure, Comes And Goes, Conquest

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• Every French soldier carriers a marshal's baton in his knapsack.

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  Leadership, Soldier, Empowerment

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• Soldiers! Here is the battle you have so long desired! Henceforth victory depends on you; we have need of it.

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  War, Long, Soldier

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