"Cavalry is useful before, during, and after the battle."
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"Nothing is lost as long as courage remains"
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"When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation"
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"To live, is to suffer; and the honest man is always fighting to be master of his own mind."
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"Since the discovery of printing, knowledge has been called to power, and power has been used to make knowledge a slave."
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"To command, you must first of all speak to the eyes."
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"Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult."
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"In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them."
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"In a great nation, the majority are incapable of judging wisely of things."
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"Men soon get tired of shedding their blood for the advantage of a few individuals, who think they amply reward the soldiers perils with the treasures they amass."
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"I have fought sixty battles, and I have learnt nothing which I did not know at the beginning."
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"A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything."
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"The first quality of a soldier is constancy in enduring fatigue and hardship. Courage is only the second. Poverty privation and want are the school of the good soldier."
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"A man does not have himself killed for a half-pence a day or for a petty distinction. You must speak to the soul in order to electrify him"
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"The purely defensive is doomed to defeat."
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"A faithful friend is the true image of the Deity."
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"It is in times of difficulty that great nations like great men display the whole energy of their character and become an object of admiration to posterity."
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"I haven't known 6 days of happiness in my life."
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"War justifies everything."
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"It is not necessary to prohibit or encourage oddities of conduct which are not harmful."
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