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Liberty is a need felt by a small class of people whom nature has endowed with nobler minds than the mass of men;.... Consequently, it may be repressed with impunity. Equality, on the other hand, pleases the masses.
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I marvel that whereas the ambitious dreams of my self, Caesar, and Alexander should have vanished into thin air, a Judean peasant-Jesus-s hould be able to stretch His hands across the centuries and control the destinies of men and nations.
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If it had not been for the English I should have been emperor of the East, but wherever there is water to float a ship we are sure to find them in our way.
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Liberty and equality are magical words.
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An army marches on its stomach.
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In a great nation, the majority are incapable of judging wisely of things.
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History paints the human heart.
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One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
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My generals are a parcel of post inspectors.
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We must serve the people worthily, and not occupy ourselves in trying to please them. The best way, to gain their affections is to do them good.
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When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
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We frustrate many designs against us by pretending not to see them.
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War is ninety percent information.
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Do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything.
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Two armies are two bodies which meet and try to frighten each other.
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Mankind are in the end always governed by superiority of intellectual faculties, and none are more sensible of this than the military profession. When, on my return from Italy, I assumed the dress of the Institute, and associated with men of science, I knew what I was doing: I was sure of not being misunderstood by the lowest drummer boy in the army.
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A portion of the multitude must ever be coerced.
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Take a dose of medicine once, and in all probability you will be obliged to take an additional hundred afterwards.
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The law, that is what makes men stay honest.
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Generals who save troops for the next day are always beaten.
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Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.
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An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
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I cannot believe there is a god who punishes and rewards, for I see honest folk unlucky, and rogues unlucky.
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Nothing makes the future look so rosy as to contemplate it through a glass of Chambertin.