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I may have had many projects, but I never was free to carry out any of them. It did me little good to be holding the helm; no matter how strong my hands, the sudden and numerous waves were stronger still, and I was wise enough to yield to them rather than resist them obstinately and make the ship founder. Thus I never was truly my own master but was always ruled by circumstances.

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Liberty is a need felt by a small class of people whom nature has endowed with nobler minds than the mass of men;.... Consequently, it may be repressed with impunity. Equality, on the other hand, pleases the masses.

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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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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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An aristocracy is the true support of a monarchy.

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A starving army is actually worse than none.

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The greatest ornament of an illustrious life is modesty and humility, which go a great way in the character even of the most exalted princes.

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There shall be no Alps.

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There must be Religion. Otherwise the poor would murder the rich.

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I treat policies like war. I hoodwink one flank so as to trounce the other. In my family we kneel only to God.

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An army which cannot be regularly recruited is a doomed army.

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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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I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.

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Battles are lost or won in 15 minutes

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I marvel that whereas the ambitious dreams of my self, Caesar, and Alexander should have vanished into thin air, a Judean peasant-Jesus-s hould be able to stretch His hands across the centuries and control the destinies of men and nations.

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War is the business of barbarians.

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A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

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The art of land warfare is an art of genius, of inspiration. On the sea nothing is genius or inspiration; everything is positive or empiric.

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A beautiful woman like eyes, and a good heart; One is a beautiful thing, and other treasures.

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