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It is easier to brave and threaten, than to conquer an enemy.

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Oh Man, Man. How despicable in slavery, how great when fired with the love of freedom!

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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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There are certain things in war of which the commander alone comprehends the importance. Nothing but his superior firmness and ability can subdue and surmount all difficulties.

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I generally had to give in.

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When I had the honor to be a second lieutenant, I ate dry bread, but I never let anyone know that I was poor.

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The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those chosen to attain their full worth.

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True character stands the test of emergencies. Do not be mistaken, it is weakness from which the awakening is rude.

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Variety made the Revolution. Liberty was just a pretext.

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Order marches with weighty and measured strides. Disorder is always in a hurry.

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We must serve the people worthily, and not occupy ourselves in trying to please them. The best way, to gain their affections is to do them good.

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The unwilling soldier will do anything to fight for a useless fabric piece of ribbon.

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Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

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In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

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Let the path be open to talent.

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The Emperor died forsaken by all, on this horrible rock. (St. Helena) His death struggle was awful!

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In war, the moral is to the physical as three is to one.

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My decision to destroy the authority of the blacks in Saint Domingue (Haiti) is not so much based on considerations of commerce and money, as on the need to block for ever the march of the blacks in the world.

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War justifies everything.

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I am conquered less by fortune than by the egotism and ingratitude of my companions in arms.

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