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What is the government? Nothing, unless supported by opinion.

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True wisdom, in general, consists in energetic determination.

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I am the signet which marks the page where the revolution has been stopped; but when I die it will turn the page and resume its course.

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Democracy may become frenzied, but it has feelings and can be moved. As for aristocracy, it is always cold and never forgives.

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In my youth I, too, entertained some illusions; but I soon recovered from them.

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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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It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

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The purely defensive is doomed to defeat.

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In war, three-quarters turns on personal character and relations; the balance of manpower and materials counts only for the remaining quarter.

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Good infantry is without doubt the sinews of an army; but if it has to fight a long time against very superior artillery, it will become demoralized and will be destroyed.

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In the last analysis, one must be a military man in order to govern. It is only with boot and spurs that one can govern a horse.

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My business is to succeed, and I’m good at it. I create my Iliad by my actions, create it day by day.

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A battle sometimes decides everything; and sometimes the most trifling thing decides the fate of a battle.

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The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a power that conquers all that oppose it.

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An aristocracy is the true support of a monarchy.

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War is a lottery in which nations ought to risk nothing but small amounts.

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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.

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Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and it is that to which the legislator ought to give the greatest encouragement.

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Society cannot exist without inequality of fortunes and the inequality of fortunes could not subsist without religion. Whenever a half-starved person is near another who is glutted, it is impossible to reconcile the difference if there is not an authority who tells him to.

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Each state claims the right to control interests foreign to itself when those interests are such that it can control them without putting its own interests in danger. ... other powers only recognize this right of intervening in proportion as the country doing it has the power to do it.

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