Soldiers of the Modern World, Destined to Burn up the Earth
One must be a military man in order to govern.
Great men are meteors
destined to burn up the earth.
Soldiers consider that from the
summit of these pyramids, forty
centuries look down upon you.
I am a soldier and accustomed
to risking my life every day.
I am full of the fire of youth;
I cannot act with the restraint
of an accomplished diplomat.
In the last analysis, one must
be a military man in order to govern.
It is only with boot and spurs
that one can govern a horse.
Christianity declares that its kingdom
is not of this world;
how then can it stimulate affection
for one's native land,
how can it inspire any feelings
but scepticism, indifference
and coldness for human affairs
and government?
We are members of a powerful monarchy,
but today we feel only the vices
of its constitution.
When I had the honor to be
a second lieutenant,
I ate dry bread,
but I never let anyone
know that I was poor.
My success and everything good
that I have done,
I owe to my mother.
A revolution is an opinion that
has acquired some bayonets.
I treat policies like war.
I hoodwink one flank
so as to trounce the other.
In my family we kneel only to God.
Unavailable wars are always just.
Being in the Tuileries is not
everything: what matters
is to stay here.
Clever policy consists in making
nations believe they are free.
The Concordat is not the
victory of any one party
but the consolidation of all.
I could marry the Virgin Mary
without shocking the Parisians.
In the eyes of those who found empires,
men are not men but tools.
For Poland, God created
a fifth element: Battlemud.
The empire is an old serving woman
who is used to being raped by everyone.
My star was fading, I felt the
reins slipping out of my grasp,
and could do nothing to stop it.
After making a mistake or
suffering a misfortune,
the man of genius always
gets back on his feet.
I felt that fortune was abandoning me
I no longer had the feeling that I was
sure to succeed... When a man does not
act boldly, he never does anything at
just the right moment; and a man does
not act boldly unless he is convinced
that luck is on his side.
Napolean Bonaparte
Even Napoleon
had his Watergate.
- Yogi Berra
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