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absolute power corrupts absolutely.
ABSOLUTE POWER
is a monstrously frightning thing!
The first step towards corruption
is the power to deny us
our Freedom of Speech.
When you start to lose
this freedom, by faceless
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then beware, for ABSOLUTE POWER
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A little while ago, I stood by the grave of
the old Napoleon, a magnificent tomb of gilt and
gold, fit almost for a dead deity,
and gazed upon the sarcophagus of rare
and nameless marble, where rest at last
the ashes of that restless man. I
leaned over the balustrade and thought
about the career of Napolean Bonaparte, the
greatest soldier of the modern world.
I saw him walking upon the banks of the
Seine, contemplating suicide. I saw him at
Toulon, I saw him putting down the mob in
the streets of Paris, I saw Napolean at the head
of the army of Italy, I saw him crossing the
bridge of Lodi with the tricolor in his hand,
I saw him in Egypt in the shadows of the
pyramids, I saw him conquer the Alps and mingle
the eagle of France with eagles of the crags.
I saw Napolean Bonaparte at the Battle of Marengo,
at Ulm and Austerlitz.
I saw Napolean Bonaparte in Russia, where the infantry
of the snow and the cavalry of the wild blast
scattered his legions like winter's withered
leaves. I saw him a Leipsic in defeat and
disaster, driven by a million bayonets back
upon Paris, clutched like a wild beast,
banished to Elba. I saw him escape and retake
an empire by the force of his genius.
I saw him upon the frightful field of
Waterloo, where Chance and Fate combined to
wreck the fortunes of their former king. And
I saw him at St. Helena, with his hands crossed
behind him, gazing out upon the sand solemn sea.
I thought of the orphans and widows he had made,
of the tears that had been shed for his glory,
and of the only woman who ever loved him,
pushed from his heart by the cold hand of
ambition. And I said I would rather have been
a French peasant and worn wooden shoes.
I would rather have lived in a hut with a vine
growing over the door, and the grapes growing
purple in the kisses of the autumn Summer sun.
I would rather have been that poor peasant
with my loving wife by my side, knitting as
the day died out of the sky, with my children
upon my knees and thier arms about me.
I would rather have been that man and gone down
to the tongueless silence of the dreamless dust,
than to have been that imperial impersonation of
force and murder, known as
"Napoleon the Great."
Robert G. Ingersoll
said that the man who never makes
a mistake never makes war. Those who content themselves
with pointing out the mistakes and blunders of those who
are in the struggle, are making, themselves, the greatest
of all blunders. Nothing is easier than fault-finding. No
talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character are
required to set up in the grumbling business.
Robert West
Napoleon Bonaparte, when he was only a boy in years,
spread out his future before his uncle.
His uncle shook his head and said, "Dreams!"
Napolean stepped quickly to the window, and
pointing up into the noonday sky, said, "Do you
see that star?" "No," was the reply. "I do,"
he answered, and that star led him to the
summit of human renown. Faith is one
condition of greatness, and no man ever yet held
the confidence of his fellows who did not believe
in himself. The story goes that "Colonel Roosevelt
went to Heaven. Going up to Saint Peter,
he asked if he could have ten thousand soprano
singers. The reply was in the affirmative.
He then asked for ten thousand alto singers
and was told he could have those. Next he
asked for ten thousand tenor singers and
Saint Peter replied that he could have those.
Roosevelt thanked him and started to turn away.
Saint Peter stopped him with: "What about
bass singers?" "Oh, I am going to sing bass
myself."
Fowler
"Improve your opportunities," said Bonaparte
to a school of young men.
"every hour lost now
is a chance of future misfortune."
Napolean Bonaparte
I made courtiers;
I never pretended to make friends,
said Napolean Bonaparte...
On a rocky little island he fretted
away the last years of his life ~
ALONE.
Bruce Barton
Put a rogue in the limelight and he
will behave like an honest man.
Napoleon Bonaparte
A French general, political leader and
emperor of the eighteenth and early
nineteenth century. Napolean Bonaparte
rose swiftly the ranks of army and government
during and after the French Revolution,
and crowned himself emporer in 1804.
He conquered much of Europe but lost
two-thirds of his in a disasterous
invasion of Russia. After his final
loss to Britian at the Battle of Waterloo,
he was exiled to the island of St. Helena
in the South Atlantic Ocean.
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