What is the government? Nothing, unless supported by opinion.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTENapoleon Bonaparte, on finding a dog beside the body of his dead master, licking his face and howling, on a moonlit field after a battle. Napoleon was haunted by this scene until his own death.
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There are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging.
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Success is the most convincing talker in the world.
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Napoleon Bonaparte, on finding a dog beside the body of his dead master, licking his face and howling, on a moonlit field after a battle. Napoleon was haunted by this scene until his own death.
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We frustrate many designs against us by pretending not to see them.
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Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
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One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas.
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As a rule it is circumstances that make men.
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It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
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If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets
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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
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If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
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Variety made the Revolution. Liberty was just a pretext.
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Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.
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You don’t reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.
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