The hand of the aggressor is stayed by strength - and strength alone.

Dwight Eisenhower

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The knowledge of higher leadership can only be acquired by the study of military history and actual experience. There are no hard and fast rules; everything depends on the plans of the general, the condition of the troops, the season of the year, and a thousand other circumstances, which have the effect that no one case will ever resemble another.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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Where the Government is weak, military sway prevails.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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An order that can be misunderstood, will be misunderstood.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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Prussia was hatched from a cannon-ball.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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Timid and cowardly soldiers cause the loss of a nation's independence; but pusillanimous magistrates destroy the empire of the laws, the rights of the throne, and even social order itself.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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