Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

I treat policies like war. I hoodwink one flank so as to trounce the other. In my family we kneel only to God.

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• I treat policies like war. I hoodwink one flank so as to trounce the other. In my family we kneel only to God.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • God
  • War
  • Treat