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Battles are lost or won in 15 minutes

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A commander-in-chief cannot take as an excuse for his mistakes in warfare an order given by his sovereign or his minister when the person giving the order is absent from the field of operations and is imperfectly aware or wholly unaware of the latest state of affairs. It follows that any commander-in-chief who undertakes to carry out a plan which he considers defective is at fault; he must put forward his reasons, insist on the plan being changed, and finally tender his resignation rather than be the instrument of his army's downfall.

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Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.

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Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.

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I wish I could take a raincheck on June 18.1815

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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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I have destroyed the enemy merely by marches.

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Where the Government is weak, military sway prevails.

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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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Nothing renders a nation so despicable as religious despotism.

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The stupid speak of the past, the wise of the present, and fools of the future.

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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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The Jews are the master robbers of the modern age.

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The human race is governed by its imagination.

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Surely in a matter of this kind we should endeavor to do something, that we may say that we have not lived in vain, that we may leave some impress of ourselves on the sands of time.

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To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.

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In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power. The unwise destroy themselves in resistance. The skillful accept events, take strong hold of them and direct them.

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We are born, we live, we die among supernatural.

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The art of being sometimes audacious and sometimes very prudent is the secret of success.

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There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest. All great revolutions originate in fear, for the play of interests does not lead to accomplishment.

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