Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes, Block Quotes, Decision Quotes

My decision to destroy the authority of the blacks in Saint Domingue (Haiti) is not so much based on considerations of commerce and money, as on the need to block for ever the march of the blacks in the world.

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Agriculture is the soul and chief support of empires; industry produces riches and the happiness of the people; exportation represents the superabundance, and good use of both.

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A mathematician of the first rank, Laplace quickly revealed himself as only a mediocre administrator; from his first work we saw that we had been deceived. Laplace saw no question from its true point of view; he sought subtleties everywhere; had only doubtful ideas, and finally carried the spirit of the infinitely small into administration.

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The fool has one great advantage over a man of sense; he is always satisfied with himself.

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Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.

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I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

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Life is strewn with so many dangers, and can be the source of so many misfortunes, that death is not the greatest of them.

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The art of land warfare is an art of genius, of inspiration. On the sea nothing is genius or inspiration; everything is positive or empiric.

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A victorious general must know how to employ severity, justness, and mildness by turns, if he would allay sedition or prevent it.

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Envy is a declaration of inferiority.

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How many really capable men are children more than once during the day!

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The mind of a general ought to resemble and be as clear as the field-glass of a telescope.

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War justifies everything.

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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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The World is not ruined by the wickedness of the wicked, but by the weakness of the good.

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Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

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You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse.

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A general-in-chief should ask himself several times in the day, What if the enemy were to appear now in my front, or on my right, or my left?

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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

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Morality for the upper classes, the gallows for the rabbles.

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