"Do you know what astonished me the..." - Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte
Do you know what astonished me the most in this world? The inability of force to create anything.
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“Ordinary men died, men of iron were taken prisoner: I only brought back with me men of bronze.”
“After me, the Revolution - or, rather the ideas which formed it - will resume their course. It will be like a book from which the marker is removed, and one starts to read again at the page where one left off.”
“Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.”
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“Force and not opinion is the queen of the world; but it is opinion that uses the force.[Fr., La force est la reine du monde, et non pas l'opinion; mais l'opinion est celle qui use de la force.]”
“Earth's a howling wilderness,Truculent with fraud and force.”
“Do not conquer the world with force, for force only causes resistance. Thorns spring up when an army passes. Years of misery follow a great victory. Do only what needs to be done without using violence.”
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“Politics can be strengthened by music, but music has a potency that defies politics.”
“White people cannot destroy me like they have other big ministers of Elijah Mohammed in the past by telling us oh, you speak good, you should be the leader.”
“We believe no more in Bonaparte's fighting merely for the liberties of the seas than in Great Britain's fighting for the liberties of mankind. The object is the same, to draw to themselves the power, the wealth and the resources of other nations.”