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England would be better off without Canada; it keeps her in a prepared state for war at a great expense and constant irritation.

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Put your iron hand in a velvet glove.

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I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

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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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The army is the true nobility of our country.

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In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.

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Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

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It is not necessary to prohibit or encourage oddities of conduct which are not harmful.

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The law, that is what makes men stay honest.

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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.

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A king is sometimes obliged to commit crimes; but they are the crimes of his position.

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Nothing is more destructive than the charge of artillery on a crowd.

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I feel myself driven towards an end that I do not know. As soon as I shall have reached it, as soon as I shall become unnecessary, an atom will suffice to shatter me. Till then, not all the forces of mankind can do anything against me.

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Age, habits of business and experience have modified many characters.

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All men of genius, and all those who have gained rank in the republic of letters, are brothers, whatever may be the land of their nativity.

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A leader is a dealer in hope.

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Give me a man with a good allowance of nose,... when I want any good head-work done I choose a man - provided his education has been suitable - with a long nose.

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In a battle, as in a siege, the art consists in concentrating very heavy fire on a particular point. The line of battle once established, the one who has the ability to concentrate an unlooked for mass of artillery suddenly and unexpectedly on one of these points is sure to carry the day.

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As to moral courage, I have very rarely met with the two o'clock in the morning kind. I mean unprepared courage, that which is necessary on an unexpected occasion, and which, in spite of the most unforeseen events, leaves full freedom of judgement and decision.

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In war, the general alone can judge of certain arrangements. It depends on him alone to conquer difficulties by his own superior talents and resolution.

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