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Napoleon Bonaparte Military Leader, Emperor
Army

"For today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created, for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology. Where each worker may bloom secure from the pests of contradictory and confusing truths. Our Unification of Thought is more powerful a weapon than any fleet or army on earth. We are one people. With one will. One resolve. One cause. Our enemies shall talk themselves to death. And we will bury them with their own confusion. We shall prevail!"

Powerful Fear Army
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Napoleon Bonaparte Military Leader, Emperor
Army

"I am a monarch of God's creation, and you reptiles of the earth dare not oppose me. I render an account of my government to none save God and Jesus Christ."

Government Jesus Army
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Napoleon Bonaparte Military Leader, Emperor
Army

"Muhammad was a great man, an intrepid soldier; with a handful of men he triumphed at the battle of Bender (sic); a great captain, eloquent, a great man of state, he revived his fatherland and created a new people and a new power in the middle of Arabia."

People Men Army
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Napoleon Bonaparte Military Leader, Emperor
Army

"Good infantry is without doubt the sinews of an army; but if it has to fight a long time against very superior artillery, it will become demoralized and will be destroyed."

War Fighting Army
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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
Army

"A country that is governed by its national army can never be morally free and, therefore, its so-called weakest member can never rise to his full moral height."

Country Army Height
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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
Army

"The builders of the British Indian Empire have patiently built its four pillars-the European interests, the army, the Indian princes and the communal divisions."

Army Four Division
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Laozi Philosopher
Army

"When armies are mobilized and issues joined, the man who is sorry over the fact will always win."

Army Sorry Apology
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Oscar Peterson Jazz Pianist
Army

"If the average jazz artist uses his head and at the outset of his career realizes he won't play as well at fifty as he does at twenty-five, he won't be in a line-up outside the Salvation Army when he's fifty."

Artist Army Average
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Mao Zedong Politician, Revolutionary
Army

"Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party."

Party Gun Army
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Mao Zedong Politician, Revolutionary
Army

"The state machine, including the army, the police and the courts, is the instrument with which one class oppresses another. It is an instrument of oppression against all hostile classes; it means violence and is certainly not anything 'benevolent.' 'You are merciless.' Quite so. We definitely do not adopt a benevolent policy towards the reactionary activities of the reactionaries and the reactionary classes."

Mean Communication Army
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Mao Zedong Politician, Revolutionary
Army

"This army is powerful because all its members have a conscious discipline; they have come together and they fight not for the private interests of a few individuals or a narrow clique, but for the interests of the broad masses and of the whole nation. The sole purpose of this army is to stand firmly with the Chinese people and to serve them whole-heartedly."

Fighting Powerful Army
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Mao Zedong Politician, Revolutionary
Army

"We stand for self-reliance. We hope for foreign aid but cannot be dependent on it; we depend on our own efforts, on the creative power of the whole army and the entire people."

Self Struggle Army
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Mao Zedong Politician, Revolutionary
Army

"We have an army for fighting as well as an army for labour. For fighting, we have the Eighth Route and New Fourth Armies but even they do a dual job, warfare and production. With these two kinds of armies, and with a fighting army skilled in these two tasks and in mass work, we can overcome our difficulties and defeat Japanese imperialism."

Jobs Fighting Army
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Mao Zedong Politician, Revolutionary
Army

"Soldiers are the foundation of an army; unless they are imbued with a progressive political spirit, and unless such a spirit is fostered through progressive political work, it will be impossible to achieve genuine unity between officers and men, impossible to arouse their enthusiasm for the War of Resistance to the full, and impossible to provide an excellent basis for the most effective use of all our technical equipment and tactics."

Men War Army
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Francis Bacon Philosopher, Statesman
Army

"Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil saith, It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be."

Numbers Army Sheep
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Niccolo Machiavelli Political Philosopher, Historian
Army

"To keep your actions and your plans secret always has been a very good thing . .. Marcus Crassus said to one who asked him when he was going to move the army: 'Do you believe that you will be the only one not to hear the trumpet?"

Believe Moving Army
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