244 ordspråk av Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon Bonaparte
Imagination governs the world.
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Imagination rules the world.
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Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
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In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.
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In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
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In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.
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In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.
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In revolution there are only two sorts of men, those who cause them and those who profit by them
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In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments
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In war, the moral is to the material as three is to one.
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In war, three quarters turns on personal character and relations; the balance of manpower and materials counts only for the remaining quarter.
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Incidents should not govern policy; but, policy incidents.
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International incidents should not govern foreign policy, but foreign policy, incidents
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It follows that any commander in chief who undertakes to carry out a plan which he considers defective is at fault; he must put forth his reasons, insist on the plan being changed, and finally tender his resignation rather than be the instrument of h
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It is the cause and not the death that makes the martyr
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