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Each State Claims The Right To Control Interests Foreign To Itself When Those Interests Are Such That It Can Control Them Without Putting Its Own Interests In Danger. ... Other Powers Only Recognize This Right Of Intervening In Proportion As The Country Doing It Has The Power To Do It.

My Decision To Destroy The Authority Of The Blacks In Saint Domingue (haiti) Is Not So Much Based On Considerations Of Commerce And Money, As On The Need To Block For Ever The March Of The Blacks In The World.

History Is The Version Of Past Events That People Have Decided To Agree Upon.

Battles Are Lost Or Won In 15 Minutes

We Are Made Weak Both By Idleness And Distrust Of Ourselves. Unfortunate, Indeed, Is He Who Suffers From Both. If He Is A Mere Individual He Becomes Nothing; If He Is A King He Is Lost.