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In the legal respect, after the execution of the supposed incendiaries, the other half of Moscow burned down.

~ Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy History Humor Napoleonic Wars Russia

Historians are lenient to those who succeed and stern to those who fail; in this, and this alone, they display strong political sense.

~ J. Christopher Herold

J. Christopher Herold Bonaparte Egypt France History Napoleon Napoleonic Wars

His [Pitt's] successor as prime minister was Mr. Addington, who was a friend of Mr. Pitt, just as Mr. Pitt was a friend of Mr. Addington; but their respective friends were each other's enemies. Mr. Fox, who was Mr. Pitt's enemy (although many of his friends were Mr. Pitt's friends), had always stood uncompromisingly for peace with France and held dangerously liberal opinions; nevertheless, in 1804, Mr. Fox and Mr. Pitt got together to overthrow Mr. Pitt's friend Mr. Addington, who was pushing the war effort with insufficient vigor.

~ J. Christopher Herold

J. Christopher Herold Friends Napoleonic Wars William Pitt

The right-wing Tories and the conservative Whigs fought Napoleon as the Usurper and the Enemy of the Established Order; the liberal Tories and the radical Whigs fought him as the Betrayer of the Revolution and the Enslaver of Europe; they were all agreed in fighting him, and his notion that their disagreement signified national disunion was mere wishful thinking. All dictators since his time have fallen into the same trap: themselves blind to the values of liberty, they cannot conceive that people who disagree on its meaning can nevertheless unite in upholding their freedoms against patent despotism.

~ J. Christopher Herold

J. Christopher Herold Despotism Liberty Napoleon Napoleonic Wars Tories Whigs
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