"A new-born Government must shine and astonish - the moment it loses its éclat it falls."
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"My generals are a parcel of post inspectors."
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"Jesus Chris was more than man."
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"I am a soldier and accustomed to risking my life every day. I am full of the fire of youth; I cannot act with the restraint of an accomplished diplomat."
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"Military despotism represses generous sentiments, priestly tyranny stifles them."
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"Unity of command is essential to the economy of time. Warfare in the field was like a siege: by directing all one's force to a single point a breach might be made, and the equilibrium of opposition destroyed."
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"A great reserve and severity of manners are necessary for the command of those who are older than ourselves."
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"I may have had many projects, but I never was free to carry out any of them."
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"The confidence with which a Sovereign is invested, is solid only when it is sanctioned by the suffrages of the people, who clothed him with the supreme magistracy."
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"Man, not men, is the most important consideration."
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"Patriotism is a word which represents a noble idea."
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"A victorious general must know how to employ severity, justness, and mildness by turns, if he would allay sedition or prevent it."
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"Victory and disaster establish indestructible bonds between armies and their commanders."
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"Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires."
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"War is like government, a matter of tact."
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"It should not be believed that a march of three or four days in the wrong direction can be corrected by a countermarch. As a rule, this is to make two mistakes instead of one."
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"He is almost a statesman. He lies well."
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"Each state claims the right to control interests foreign to itself when those interests are such that it can control them without putting its own interests in danger. ... other powers only recognize this right of intervening in proportion as the country doing it has the power to do it."
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"War,--the trade of barbarians!"
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"All Italians are plunderers."
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