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In war the simplest manoeuvres are the best.
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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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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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The Concordat is not the victory of any one party but the consolidation of all.
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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 Jews are the master robbers of the modern age.
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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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Oh Man, Man. How despicable in slavery, how great when fired with the love of freedom!
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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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Men grow old quickly on the battlefield.
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More glorious to merit a sceptre than to possess one.
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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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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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It is not enough to give orders they must be obeyed.
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An Emperor confides in national soldiers, not in mercenaries.
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The Bible is not merely a book-it is a living power. . . . Nowhere as in the Bible can be found such a series of beautiful ideas and admirable maxims which pose before us like the battalions of a celestial army. . . . The soul can never go astray while it has this book for its guide.
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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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From first to last, Jesus is the same; always the same--majestic and simple, infinitely severe and infinitely gentle.
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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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I would believe any religion that could prove it had existed since the beginning of the world. But when I see Socrates, Plato, Moses, and Mohammed I do not think there is such a one. All religions owe their origin to man.
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Orders and decorations are necessary in order to dazzle the people.
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Paradise is a center whither the souls of all men are proceeding, each sect in its particular road.
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Prussia was hatched from a cannon-ball.