Napoleon Bonaparte

Napoleon Bonaparte Speech – The Egyptian Campaign

On April 26, 2010, in Great Speeches, by admin

Napoleon I’s speech on the 1798 French invasion of Egypt

Soldiers, you are a wing of the army of England! You are masters of the modes of warfare appropriate to mountains, to plains, to sieges. Naval war remains to complete your experience.

The Roman legions whom you have sometimes imitated, but not as yet equaled, fought Carthage successively upon this sea and upon the plains of Zama. Victory never forsook them, because they were constantly brave, patient of fatigue, well disciplined, resolute. But, soldiers, Europe has her eyes upon you! You have great destinies to fulfil, battles to fight, fatigues to surmount!

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— Cicero

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— Theodore Roosevelt

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— Aristotle

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.

— Winston Churchill

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There is no tone of voice more compelling than honesty; thus the first principle of persuasion is truth.

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