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"The Allied Powers having proclaimed that the Emperor Napoleon is the sole obstacle to the re-establishment of peace in Europe, he, faithful to his oath, declares that he is ready to descend from the throne, to quit France, and even to relinquish life, for the good of his country."
"Send me 300 francs; that sum will enable me to go to Paris. There, at least, one can cut a figure and surmount obstacles. Everything tells me I shall succeed. Will you prevent me from doing so for the want of 100 crowns?"
"I generally had to give in."
"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."
"An army must have but one line of operations. This must be maintained with care and abandoned only for major reasons."
"What I have done up to this is nothing. I am only at the beginning of the course I must run. Do you imagine that I triumph in Italy in order to aggrandise the pack of lawyers who form the Directory, and men like Carnot and Barras? What an idea!"
"A cowardly act! What do I care about that? You may be sure that I should never fear to commit one if it were to my advantage."
"One might as well try to charge through a wall."
"Victory and disaster establish indestructible bonds between armies and their commanders."
"The word 'defeat' is not to be found in my dictionary, and everyone who is selected as a recruit in my army may be certain that there is no defeat for a satyagrahi."
"Love has more force than a besieging army."
"When great armies go to war, Sorrow is the sole winner."
"Thorn bushes grow where armies have camped."
"The unyielding army will not win."
"When equal armies battle, the grieving one will be victorious."
"Here you find us sitting on a field of victory, amid the plunder of armies, and you wonder how we came by a few well-earned comforts!"
"One of the things I think the police have to do is to stop behaving like armies."
"If it's necessary to form a Black Nationalist army, we'll form a Black Nationalist army. It'll be ballot or the bullet. It'll be liberty or it'll be death."
"It took the United States Army to get one Negro into the University of Mississippi; it took troops to get a few Negroes in the white schools at Little Rock and another dozen places in the South."
"All our officers and fighters must always bear in mind that we are the great People's Liberation Army, we are the troops led by the great Communist Party of China. Provided we constantly observe the directives of the Party, we are sure to win."
