Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

If fifty thousand men were to die for the good of the State, I certainly would weep for them, but political necessity comes before everything else.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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• If fifty thousand men were to die for the good of the State, I certainly would weep for them, but political necessity comes before everything else.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Die
  • State
  • Political Necessity