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Conscription is the vitality of a nation, the purification of its morality, and the real foundations of all its habits
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All generals, officers, and soldiers who capitulate in battle to save their own lives should be decimated.
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One must learn to forgive and not to hold a hostile, bitter attitude of mind, which offends those about us and prevents us from enjoying ourselves. One must recognize human shortcomings and adjust himself to them rather than to be constantly finding fault with them.
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I hope before long to press you in my arms and shall shower on you a million burning kisses as under the Equator.
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Oh Man, Man. How despicable in slavery, how great when fired with the love of freedom!
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It is not enough to give orders they must be obeyed.
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The bullet that will kill me is not yet cast.
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The logical end to defensive warfare is surrender.
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France is invaded; I am leaving to take command of my troops, and, with God's help and their valor, I hope soon to drive the enemy beyond the frontier.
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More glorious to merit a sceptre than to possess one.
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The Jews are the master robbers of the modern age.
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Prussia was hatched from a cannon-ball.
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Men grow old quickly on the battlefield.
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Cossacks are the best light troops among all that exist. If I had them in my army, I would go through all the world with them.
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Public opinion is a mysterious and invisible power, to which everything must yield. There is nothing more fickle, more vague, or more powerful; yet capricious as it is, it is nevertheless much more often true, reasonable, and just, than we imagine.
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I have doubtless erred more or less in politics, but a crime I never committed.
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Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent.
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You cannot drag a man's conscience before any tribunal, and no one is answerable for his religious opinions to any power on earth.
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To attach no importance to public opinion, is a proof that you do not merit its suffrage.
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From first to last, Jesus is the same; always the same--majestic and simple, infinitely severe and infinitely gentle.
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When you have resolved to fight a battle, collect your whole force. Dispense with nothing. A single battalion sometimes decides the day.
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The secret of war lies in the communications.
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Society cannot exist without inequality of fortunes and the inequality of fortunes could not subsist without religion. Whenever a half-starved person is near another who is glutted, it is impossible to reconcile the difference if there is not an authority who tells him to.
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He who is unmoved by tears has no heart.