"Europeans are forever the offspring of Machiavelli, trapped……" — Loretta Napoleoni

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• During a frustrating argument with a Roman Catholic cardinal, Napoleon Bonaparte supposedly burst out: Your eminence, are you not aware… — Ross Douthat
• Anyone who clings to the historically untrue-and thoroughly immoral-doctrine that, 'violence never settles anything' I would advise to conjure the… — Robert A. Heinlein
• I always thought I was Jeanne d'Arc and Bonaparte. How little one knows oneself. — Charles de Gaulle
• The three-o'-clock in the morning courage, which Bonaparte thought was the rarest. — Henry David Thoreau
• Trying to out-guess Bonaparte; the thought makes my blood run cold. — Naomi Novik
• The monster has escaped Elba!" "The tyrant has landed at Cannes!" "Bonaparte meets the troops." "Napoleon approaches Paris." "His Imperial… — David Frum
• France, freed from that monster, Bonaparte, must again become the most agreeable country on earth. It would be the second… — Thomas Jefferson
• [Wise men] have tried to understand our state of being, by grasping at its stars, or its arts, or its… — Charles Fort
• This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment; yet he lay there deserted by… — Napoleon Bonaparte
• Youth is terrible: it is a stage trod by children in buskins and a variety of costumes mouthing speeches they've… — Milan Kundera
• All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in… — Abraham Lincoln
• Anyone who clings to the historically untrue -- and -- thoroughly immoral doctrine that violence never solves anything I would… — Robert A. Heinlein

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