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83 quotes (Page 1 of 4 pages)A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
Respectability
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A Constitution should be short and obscure.
Constitutions
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A leader is a dealer in hope.
Leaders and Leadership
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A man's palate can, in time, become accustomed to anything.
Taste
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A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.
Freedom of Speech
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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
Royalty
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A true man hates no one.
Men
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Ability is of little account without opportunity.
Ability
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Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.
Oppression
Napoleon Bonaparte
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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.
Leaders and Leadership
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Chance is the providence of adventurers.
Chance
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Character is victory organized.
Character
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Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.
Courage
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Do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything.
Organization
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Do you wish to find out the really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.
Christians and Christianity
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Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.
Doctors
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Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.
Leaders and Leadership
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
Newspapers
Napoleon Bonaparte
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From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
History and Historians
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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Glory
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Great people are meteors designed to burn so that the earth may be lighted.
Greatness
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Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.
Greatness
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He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
Fear
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I have only one counsel for you -- be master.
Control
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I made all my generals out of mud.
Generals
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun