Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes, Fighting Quotes, Men Quotes

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. Men are moved by only two mechanisms: fear and self-interest. Victory belongs to the most persevering.

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The purely defensive is doomed to defeat.

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You cannot stop me; I spend thirty thousand men a month.

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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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The superior man is never in anyone's way.

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People take England on trust, and repeat that Shakespeare is the greatest of all authors. I have read him: there is nothing that compares Racine or Corneille: his plays are unreadable, pitiful.

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After me, the Revolution - or, rather the ideas which formed it - will resume their course. It will be like a book from which the marker is removed, and one starts to read again at the page where one left off.

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Medicines are only fit for old people.

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As a rule it is circumstances that make men.

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Nothing is so contrary to military rules as to make the strength of your army known, either in the orders of the day, in proclamations, or in the newspapers.

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An army marches on its stomach.

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Public opinion is a mysterious and invisible power, to which everything must yield. There is nothing more fickle, more vague, or more powerful; yet capricious as it is, it is nevertheless much more often true, reasonable, and just, than we imagine.

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Mankind are in the end always governed by superiority of intellectual faculties, and none are more sensible of this than the military profession. When, on my return from Italy, I assumed the dress of the Institute, and associated with men of science, I knew what I was doing: I was sure of not being misunderstood by the lowest drummer boy in the army.

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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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I hope before long to press you in my arms and shall shower on you a million burning kisses as under the Equator.

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To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

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The sovereignty of the people is inalienable.

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The Turks can be killed, but they can never be conquered.

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They wanted me to be a Washington.

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An army's effectiveness depends on its size, training, experience, and morale, and morale is worth more than any of the other factors combined.

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