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There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.
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With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.
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Men will risk their lives, even die for ribbons.
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War is 90% information.
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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
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The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
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What is history but a fable agreed upon?
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The leader's role is to define reality, then give hope.
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Washington is dead! This great man fought against Tyranny; he established the liberty of his country. His memory will always be dear to the French people, as it will be to all free men of the two worlds; and especially to French soldiers, who, like him and the American soldiers, have combated for liberty and equality.
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Every beggar shall be arrested. But to arrest a beggar merely in order to put him in jail would be barbarous and absurd. He should be arrested for the sole purpose of teaching him how to earn a living by his work.
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The Jesuits are a MILITARY organization, not a religious order. Their chief is a general of an army, not the mere father abbot of a monastery. And the aim of this organization is power - power in its most despotic exercise - absolute power, universal power, power to control the world by the volition of a single man. Jesuitism is the most absolute of despotisms - and at the same time the greatest and most enormous of abuses.
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Once you have made up your mind, stick to it; there is no longer any 'if' or 'but'.
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The most dangerous moment comes with victory.
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The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
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To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.
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I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne.
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Who saves his country violates no law.
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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
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To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.
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The best way to make every one poor is to insist on equality of wealth.
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The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
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In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.
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Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.
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A commander-in-chief cannot take as an excuse for his mistakes in warfare an order given by his sovereign or his minister when the person giving the order is absent from the field of operations and is imperfectly aware or wholly unaware of the latest state of affairs. It follows that any commander-in-chief who undertakes to carry out a plan which he considers defective is at fault; he must put forward his reasons, insist on the plan being changed, and finally tender his resignation rather than be the instrument of his army's downfall.
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