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The true conquests, the only ones that cause no regret, are those made over ignorance.'68

His constant references to the ancient world have the effect of giving ordinary soldiers a sense of their lives.

On Liberty, 'that truth, merely as truth, has any inherent power denied to error, of prevailing against the dungeon and the stake.

The idea of God is very useful,' Napoleon said, 'to maintain good order, to keep men in the path of virtue and to keep them from crime.

More books have been written with Napoleon in the title than there have been days since his death in 1821.

For every American who died, the Japanese lost 6 people, the Germans 11, and the Russians 92.

THE STORM OF WAR A NEW HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR

One of the chief values reading history, this is the author, is its capacity to "provoke renegade thoughts".

That's war: very high in the morning and very low in the evening: from triumph to failure is only one step.

I lived like a bear, in a little room, with books for my only friends . . . These were the joys and debaucheries of my youth.

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At one dinner he [George Smith Patton] toasted his officers' wives with the words: 'My, what pretty widows you're going to make.