Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes - Page 4

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• 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.

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  God, Men, Order

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• If you know a country's geography, you can understand and predict its foreign policy.

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  Country, Geography, Foreign Policy

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• The barbarous custom of having men beaten who are suspected of having important secrets to reveal must be abolished. It has always been recognized that this way of interrogating men, by putting them to torture, produces nothing worthwhile.

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  Military, Men, Secret

  "Correspondance Napoleon" edited by Henri Plon, Vol. V, No. 3605, (p. 128), 1861.

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• I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.

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  Business, Military, Three

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

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• Act swiftly and vigorously, without 'buts' and 'ifs'.

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  Ifs

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• The leader's role is to define reality, then give hope

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  Reality, Giving, Leader

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• You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse.

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  Horse, Silly, Thinking

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• A true man hates no one.

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  Hate, War, Real Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent.

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  Jesus, Islamic, World

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• If I always appear prepared, it is because before entering an undertaking, I have meditated long and have foreseen what might occur. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly and secretly what I should do in circumstances unexpected by others; it is thought and preparation

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  Long, Preparation, Might

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• 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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  Art, Military, War

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• An order that can be misunderstood, will be misunderstood.

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  Leadership, Power, Order

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• Love is the occupation of the idle man, the amusement of a busy one, and the shipwreck of a sovereign.

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  Love, Men, Occupation

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• Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

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  Power, Men, Political

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

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• To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.

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  Men, Twenties, World

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• Nature intended women to be our slaves. They are our property.

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  Women, Negative, Slave

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• One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.

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  Abortion, Should

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• I hope the time is not far off when I shall be able to unite all the wise and educated men of all the countries and establish a uniform regime based on the principles of the Quran which alone are true and which alone can lead men to happiness.

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  Wise, Country, Army

  "Correspondance Napoleon" edited by Henri Plon, Vol. 4, No. 3148, (p. 420), 1861.

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• My mind is a chest of drawers. When I wish to deal with a subject, I shut all the drawers but the one in which the subject is to be found. When I am wearied, I shut all the drawers and go to sleep.

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  Sleep, Mind, Wish

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• Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.

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  Enemy, Wrong Things

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• Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

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  Live Life, Power, People

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• When people cease to complain, they cease to think.

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  Thinking, People, Political

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• Lies circle the earth while Truth is still trying to put on its shoes.

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  Lying, Circles, Shoes

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• Governments keep their promises only when they are forced, or when it is to their advantage to do so.

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  Power, Government, Promise

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• Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.

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  Interesting, Social Justice, Oppression

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