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Sovereign Inspirational Quotes (571)

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Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The art of the police is not to see what it is useless that it should see.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I have noticed in every campaign that I have fought-that there is a key segment of time, somewhere between 13 and 15 minutes in which the battle is won or lost. I focus on that segment of time, and I win.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The purely defensive is doomed to defeat.
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War is a lottery in which nations ought to risk nothing but small amounts.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Orders and decorations are necessary in order to dazzle the people.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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A commander in chief ought to say to himself several times a day: If the enemy should appear on my front, on my right, on my left, what would I do? And if the question finds him uncertain, he is not well placed, he is not as he should be, and he should remedy it.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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We are made weak both by idleness and distrust of ourselves. Unfortunate, indeed, is he who suffers from both. If he is a mere individual he becomes nothing if he is a king he is lost.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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It is easy to know when a government wishes for peace by observing the character of the person sent to negotiate for it.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Ability has nothing to do with opportunity.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Clearly, the pleasures wines afford are transitory - but so are those of the ballet, or of a musical performance. Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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My true glory is not to have won 40 battles ... Waterloo will erase the memory of so many victories, ... But ... what will live forever, is my Civil Code.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The amateurs discuss tactics: the professionals discuss logistics
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An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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If the art of war were nothing but the art of avoiding risks, glory would become the prey of mediocre minds.... I have made all the calculations fate will do the rest.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I'd like to be a truck driver. I think you could run your life that way. It wouldn't be such a bad way of doing it. It would offer a chance to be alone.
Anne, Queen of Great Britain
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Do not forget your dogs of war, your big guns, which are the most-to-be respected arguments of the rights of kings.
Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
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God is on the side with the best artillery
Napoleon Bonaparte
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For my part, it is not the mystery of the incarnation which I discover in religion, but the mystery of social order, which associates with heaven that idea of equality which prevents the rich from destroying the poor
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The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a power that conquers all that oppose it.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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It would be a joke if the conduct of the victor had to be justified to the vanquished.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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In matters of government, justice means force as well as virtue.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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It is rare that a legislature reasons. It is too quickly impassioned.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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