Quote #122

It is the province of honest men to enlighten the government.

More from Napoleon Bonaparte

  1. It is the cause, and not the death, that makes the martyr.
  2. It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
  3. It is not enough that I succeed - everyone else must fail.- Adapted from Hannibal.
  4. It would have been better for the peace of France if this man had never existed.
  5. It is in the workshops of the country that the most successful war is waged against an enemy, at least it does not cost a drop of its peopl…
  6. Let China sleep. For when China wakes, it will shake the world.
  7. In warfare, the mental to the physical is as three is to one.
  8. Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

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