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Sovereign Inspirational Quotes (570)

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If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Secrets travel fast in Paris.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Lead the ideas of your time and they will accompany and support you fall behind them and they drag you along with them oppose them and they will overwhelm you.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Man, not men, is the most important consideration.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Great men are meteors, consuming themselves to light the world
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The worse the man, the better the soldier.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The secret of war lies in the communications.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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An aristocracy is the true support of a monarchy.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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If somebody gives me his hand, I will not look at him with suspicion.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
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The army is the true nobility of our country.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Never interfere with an enemy in the process of destroying himself.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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There is one certain means by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin: I will die in the last ditch.
William III of England
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Act swiftly and vigorously, without 'buts' and 'ifs'.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The fate of a battle is the result of a moment, of a thought: the hostile forces advance with various combinations, they attack each other and fight for a certain time the critical moment arrives, a mental flash decides, and the least reserve accomplishes the object.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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A man's enjoyment of all good things is in exact proportion to the pains he has undergone to gain them.
Cyrus the Great
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It is with artillery that war is made.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The people excited by ambitious demagogues, sooner or later return into the hands of the Aristocracy.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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One bad general is worth two good ones.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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If the populace knew with what idiocy they were ruled, they would revolt.
Charlemagne
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There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Youth is the first victim of war the first fruit of peace.It takes 20 years or more of peace to make a man it takes only 20 seconds of war to destroy him.
Baudouin of Belgium
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If we are understood, more words are unnecessary if we are not likely to be understood, they are useless.
Charles II of England
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Pure politics is merely the calculus of combinations and of chances.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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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.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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