"The people excited by ambitious demagogues, sooner or later return into the hands of the Aristocracy."
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"Every means should be taken to attach the soldier to his colours."
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"The allies we gain by victory will turn against us upon the bare whisper of our defeat."
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"Being in the Tuileries is not everything: what matters is to stay here."
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"In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power."
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"Leaders deal in hope."
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"Unavailable wars are always just."
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"If you want to get on in this world make many promises, but don't keep them."
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"Power is founded upon opinion."
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"The law, that is what makes men stay honest."
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"Parties weaken themselves by their fear of capable men."
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"War is cruel to the people, and terrible to the conquered."
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"I have doubtless erred more or less in politics, but a crime I never committed."
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"Soldiers! Here is the battle you have so long desired! Henceforth victory depends on you; we have need of it."
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"An army must have but one line of operations. This must be maintained with care and abandoned only for major reasons."
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"Every French soldier carriers a marshal's baton in his knapsack."
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"The true policy of government is to make use of aristocracy, but under the forms and in the spirit of democracy."
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"Many a one commits a reprehensible action, who is at bottom an honourable man, because man seldom acts upon natural impulse, but from some secret passion of the moment which lies hidden and concealed within the narrowest folds of his heart."
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"The unwilling soldier will do anything to fight for a useless fabric piece of ribbon."
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"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!"
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