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  1. Discover Napoleon Bonaparte famous and rare quotes. Share Napoleon Bonaparte quotations about war, power and politics. "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making..."

  2. A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. Napoleon Bonaparte. Military, War, Fighting. The first quality of a soldier is constancy in enduring fatigue and hardship. Courage is only the second. Poverty privation and want are the school of the good soldier. Napoleon Bonaparte. War, School, Soldier.

    • In war, three-quarters turns on personal character and relations; the balance of manpower and materials counts only for the remaining quarter. Variant: In war, moral power is to physical as three parts out of four.
    • From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step. Variant: There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. Napoleon said this during his retreat from Russia.
    • You write to me that it is impossible; the word is not French. Variant: The word impossible is not French. Also misquoted as: The word impossible is not in my dictionary.
    • What is the throne? A bit of wood gilded and covered with velvet. Variants: Four pieces of gilded wood covered with a piece of velvet. This wooden frame covered with velvet.
  3. Discover Napoleon Bonaparte famous and rare quotes. Share Napoleon Bonaparte quotations about war, power and politics. "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and..."

  4. Napoléon Bonaparte. > Quotes. (?) “It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.”. “Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.”. “Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances”. “Ability is of little account without opportunity.”. “When a government is dependent upon ...

  5. In fact, the first five OLL quotes dealt with war, peace, and patriotism. We list this collection of quotations about War & Peace below (in reverse chronological order) with links to the full quote so you can see what some of our authors have to say on the matter.

  6. All Themes. Volume 1, Part 1: Chapters 5–6 Quotes. “There’s war now against Napoleon. If it were a war for freedom, I could understand it, I’d be the first to go into military service; but to help England and Austria against the greatest man in the world . . . is not right.”.

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