"All the great captains have performed vast achievements by conforming with the rules of art--by adjusting efforts to obstacles."
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"The man fitted for affairs and authority never considers individuals, but things and their consequences."
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"No amount of money will induce someone to lay down their life, but they will gladly do so for a bit of yellow ribbon."
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"What are the conditions that make for the superiority of an army? Its internal organization, military habits in officers and men, the confidence of each in themselves; that is to say, bravery, patience, and all that is contained in the idea of moral means."
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"If you wage war, do it energetically and with severity. This is the only way to make it shorter and consequently less inhuman."
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"An army which cannot be regularly recruited is a doomed army."
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"Collective crimes incriminate no one."
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"When Monarchs abuse the rights with which they have been invested by the confidence of the people, and bring down upon their heads the calamity of war, the people have the right to withdraw their allegiance."
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"It is the business of cavalry to follow up the victory, and to prevent the beaten army from rallying."
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"In war, three-quarters turns on personal character and relations; the balance of manpower and materials counts only for the remaining quarter."
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"Laws which are consistent in theory often prove chaotic in practice."
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"In order that a people may be free, it is necessary that the governed be sages, and those who govern, gods."
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"As a rule it is circumstances that make men."
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"It's the unconquerable soul of man, and not the nature of the weapon he uses, that ensures victory"
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"The public spirit is in the hands of the man who knows how to make use of it."
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"I marvel that whereas the ambitious dreams of my self, Caesar, and Alexander should have vanished into thin air, a Judean peasant-Jesus-s hould be able to stretch His hands across the centuries and control the destinies of men and nations."
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"If obedience is the result of the instinct of the masses, revolt is the result of their thought."
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"Go Sir, gallop and don't forget that the world was made in six days. You can ask me for anything but not time."
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"A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view."
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"From first to last, Jesus is the same; always the same--majestic and simple, infinitely severe and infinitely gentle."
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