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High politic is only common sense applied to great things.

High politic is only common sense applied to great things.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Power, Common Sense, Politics

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Thank You, Veterans Day, Memorial Day

Sire, I am my own Rudolph of Hapsburg.

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Rudolph, Ancestry, My Own
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Book by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1922.

Do you wish to find out the really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Bible, Prayer, Biblical

I have destroyed the enemy merely by marches.

Napoleon Bonaparte
War, Enemy, March

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Atheist, Men, Wish

The allies we gain by victory will turn against us upon the bare whisper of our defeat.

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Military, War, Victory

I am a monarch of God's creation, and you reptiles of the earth dare not oppose me. I render an account of my government to none save God and Jesus Christ.

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Jesus, Army, Government
"The life of Napoleon Bonaparte, emperor of the French: with a preliminary view of the French revolution" by Sir Walter Scott, Philadelphia: Leary & Getz, (p. 91), 1857.

When I want any, good head work done; I always choose a man, if possible with a long nose.

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Men, Long, Quality

I know men; and I tell you that Jesus Christ is not a man. Superficial minds see a resemblance between Christ and the founders of empires, and the gods of other religions. That resemblance does not exist. There is between Christianity and whatever other religions the distance of infinity.

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Jesus, Distance, Men

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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Time, May, Matter
Letter of to his Minister of the Interior on the Poor Laws. Pub. in The Press, February 1, 1868.

The division of labor, which has brought such perfection in mechanical industries, is altogether fatal when applied to productions of the mind. All work of the mind is superior in proportion as the mind that produces it is universal.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Division Of Labor, Perfection, Mind
Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

The best medicine against the grapes of wrath is a whiff of grapeshot

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Wrath, Medicine, Grapes

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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Fighting, Men, Rights

In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power.

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Events, Invincible
Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

Better to have a known enemy than a forced ally.

Napoleon Bonaparte
War, Enemy, Allies

What a beautiful fix we are in now; peace has been declared.

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Beautiful, Peace, Has Beens

In the last analysis, one must be a military man in order to govern. It is only with boot and spurs that one can govern a horse.

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Horse, Military, Men

Equality should be the chief basis of the education of youth.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Youth, Should, Chiefs

An army travels on its stomach. Soup makes the soldier.

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Army, Soldier, Soup

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

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God, Atheist, Religion

When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.

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Eye, Fire, Baptized In

The true policy of government is to make use of aristocracy, but under the forms and in the spirit of democracy.

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Government, Class, Democracy
Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

Man, not men, is the most important consideration.

Napoleon Bonaparte
War, Men, Important

A man occupied with public or other important business cannot, and need not, attend to spelling.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Men, Important, Needs

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