"Envy is a declaration of inferiority."
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"War is ninety percent information."
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"Anarchy is the stepping stone to absolute power."
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"Muhammad was a prince; he rallied his compatriots around him. In a few years, the Muslims conquered half of the world. They plucked more souls from false gods, knocked down more idols, razed more pagan temples in fifteen years than the followers of Moses and Jesus did in fifteen centuries. Muhammad was a great man. He would indeed have been a god, if the revolution that he had performed had not been prepared by the circumstances."
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"When you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna."
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"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself."
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"If I were to give liberty to the press, my power could not last three days."
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"You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse."
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"Victory belongs to the most persevering."
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"The Bible is not merely a book-it is a living power. . . . Nowhere as in the Bible can be found such a series of beautiful ideas and admirable maxims which pose before us like the battalions of a celestial army. . . . The soul can never go astray while it has this book for its guide."
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"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent."
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"From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us."
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"Every hour of lost time is a chance of future misfortune."
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"Read over and over again the campaigns of Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, Gustavus, Turenne, Eugene and Frederic. ... This is the only way to become a great general and master the secrets of the art of war."
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"The best way to keep one's word is not to give it."
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"The Jesuits are a MILITARY organization, not a religious order. Their chief is a general of an army, not the mere father abbot of a monastery. And the aim of this organization is power - power in its most despotic exercise - absolute power, universal power, power to control the world by the volition of a single man. Jesuitism is the most absolute of despotisms - and at the same time the greatest and most enormous of abuses."
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"Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted."
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"If you know a country's geography, you can understand and predict its foreign policy."
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"After making a mistake or suffering a misfortune, the man of genius always gets back on his feet."
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"England is a nation of shopkeepers."
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