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* "Napoleon is a military fanatic like Achilles, Alexander, Caesar, Mahomet, Zengis, Kouli, Charles XII. The maxim and principle of all of them was the same.
 
* "Napoleon is a military fanatic like Achilles, Alexander, Caesar, Mahomet, Zengis, Kouli, Charles XII. The maxim and principle of all of them was the same.
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<blockquote>''"Jura negat sibi nata, nihil non arrogat armis."''<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=GDHqCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA436 The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams]</ref><ref>The latin phrase "Jura negat sibi nata, nihil non arrogat armis." comes from [[Horace]] ''Ars Poetica'', and generally translates to "''He denies that laws were made for him; he arrogates everything to himself by force of arms''."</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=nxJLAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA207 Horace: Satires, Epistles, and Ars Poetica]</ref></blockquote>
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<blockquote>''"Jura negat sibi nata, nihil non arrogat armis."''<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=GDHqCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA436 The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams]</ref><ref>The latin phrase "Jura negat sibi nata, nihil non arrogat armis." comes from [[Horace]] ''Ars Poetica'', and generally translates to "''He denies that laws were made for him; he arrogates everything to himself by force of arms''."</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=nxJLAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA207 Horace: Satires, Epistles, and Ars Poetica]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=eX_A2Fk3-GwC&pg=PA481 The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 7: 28 November 1813 to 30 September 1814]</ref></blockquote>
    
* "Although I have never sought popularity by any animated speeches or inflammatory publications against the slavery of the blacks, my opinion against it has always been known, and my practice has been so conformable to my sentiments that I have always employed freemen, both as domestics and laborers, and never in my life did I own a slave. The abolition of slavery must be gradual, and accomplished with much caution and circumspection. Violent means and measures would produce greater violations of justice and humanity than the continuance of the practice."<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=-Wh3AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA92 The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations, Volume 9], To George Churchman and Jacob Lindley, January 24th, 1801</ref>
 
* "Although I have never sought popularity by any animated speeches or inflammatory publications against the slavery of the blacks, my opinion against it has always been known, and my practice has been so conformable to my sentiments that I have always employed freemen, both as domestics and laborers, and never in my life did I own a slave. The abolition of slavery must be gradual, and accomplished with much caution and circumspection. Violent means and measures would produce greater violations of justice and humanity than the continuance of the practice."<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=-Wh3AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA92 The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations, Volume 9], To George Churchman and Jacob Lindley, January 24th, 1801</ref>
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