"International incidents must not be allowed to shape foreign policy, foreign policy must shape the incidents."
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"I have made noise enough in the world already, perhaps too much, and am now getting old, and want retirement."
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"You cannot stop me; I spend thirty thousand men a month."
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"The implements to him who can handle them."
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"Friendship is but a name. I love no one."
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"It is with artillery that war is made."
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"Nature intended women to be our slaves. They are our property."
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"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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"Power is what they like - it is the greatest of all aphrodisiacs."
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"It's not the size of the army but the power within the army."
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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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"Suicide is a crime the most revolting to the feelings; nor does any reason suggest itself to our understanding by which it can be justified. It certainly originates in that species of fear which we denominate poltroonery. For what claim can that man have to courage who trembles at the frowns of fortunes? True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life in whatever shape they may challenge him to combat."
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"Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them."
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"I would believe any religion that could prove it had existed since the beginning of the world. But when I see Socrates, Plato, Moses, and Mohammed I do not think there is such a one. All religions owe their origin to man."
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"The worse the troops the greater the need of artillery."
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"Man will believe anything, as long as it's not in the bible."
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"Even when I am gone, I shall remain in people's minds the star of their rights, my name will be the war cry of their efforts, the motto of their hopes."
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"History paints the human heart."
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"England would be better off without Canada; it keeps her in a prepared state for war at a great expense and constant irritation."
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"Unite for the public safety, if you would remain an independent nation."
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