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Napoleon Bonaparte, a military commander and statesman from France, was born on August 15, 1769, and died on May 5, 1821. He is a controversial historical figure who led a series of reforms in France and became a significant figure in French history.

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Famous Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

“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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“How can you have order in a state without religion? For, when one man is dying of hunger near another who is ill of surfeit, he cannot resign himself to this difference unless there is an authority which declares 'God wills it thus.' Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.”

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“I cannot approve of your method of operation, you proceed like a bewildered idiot, taking not the least notice of my orders.”

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“War must be made as intense and awful as possible in order to make it short, and thus to diminish its horrors.”

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“An order that can be misunderstood, will be misunderstood.”

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“Every beggar shall be arrested. But to arrest a beggar merely in order to put him in jail would be barbarous and absurd. He should be arrested for the sole purpose of teaching him how to earn a living by his work.”

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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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“I closed the gulf of anarchy and brought order out of chaos. I rewarded merit regardless of birth or wealth, wherever I found it. I abolished feudalism and restored equality to all regardless of religion and before the law. I fought the decrepit monarchies of the Old Regime because the alternative was the destruction of all this. I purified the Revolution.”

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“Order marches with weighty and measured strides. Disorder is always in a hurry.”

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“In order not to be astonished at obtaining victories, one ought not to think only of defeats.”

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Book:Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut

Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut

“In order that a people may be free, it is necessary that the governed be sages, and those who govern, gods.”

People May Order Liberty Sage

Book:Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut

Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut

“It is not enough to give orders they must be obeyed.”

Giving Enough Order

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“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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Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Timid and cowardly soldiers cause the loss of a nation's independence; but pusillanimous magistrates destroy the empire of the laws, the rights of the throne, and even social order itself.”

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Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“In war one must lean on an obstacle in order to overcome it.”

War Order Overcoming Obstacles

Book:Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut

Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut

“Nothing is so contrary to military rules as to make the strength of your army known, either in the orders of the day, in proclamations, or in the newspapers.”

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“In the last analysis, one must be a military man in order to govern. It is only with boot and spurs that one can govern a horse.”

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“The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.”

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“In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.”

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“This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment; yet he lay there deserted by all except his dog. I looked on, unmoved, at battles which decided the future of nations. Tearless, I had given orders which brought death to thousands. Yet here I was stirred, profoundly stirred, stirred to tears. And by what? By the grief of one dog. Napoleon Bonaparte, on finding a dog beside the body of his dead master, licking his face and howling, on a moonlit field after a battle. Napoleon was haunted by this scene until his own death.”

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“Orders and decorations are necessary in order to dazzle the people.”

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“When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.”

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“For my part, it is not the mystery of the incarnation which I discover in religion, but the mystery of social order, which associates with heaven that idea of equality which prevents the rich from destroying the poor”

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