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Toujours l'audace!
U.S. News ^
| 02/18/2002
| Michael Barone
Posted on 02/09/2002 12:28:38 PM PST by Pokey78
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02/09/2002 12:28:38 PM PST
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Pokey78
To: Pokey78
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To: Pokey78
"..."Toujours l'audace!" proclaims a French military slogan..."It is a Napoleonic slogan, to be precise.
"L'audace; encore l'audace; et toujours l'audace."
Napoleon was, of course, the proto-Hitler in European history. Hitler is unthinkable without Napoleon. However Barone is confindent that nobody in America can connect the dots.
The dots; again, the dots; connect the dots.....
To: Pokey78
When can we expect a post of houshold hints from Herr Hitler?
(Something about the "Big Lie" and all that jazz....)
To: Pokey78
'Audacity is 9O per cent of the battle.' --Karl Marx
To: LaBelleDameSansMerci
Napoleon was Hitler? Think how much better off under the Napoleonic Code the Russians would have been than living as slaves who didn't own their own hair under their own nobles. If Napoleon had conquered Russia, the Russians would have been free almost 200 years earlier than they were.
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posted on
02/09/2002 12:48:06 PM PST
by
LoisHunt
To: Pokey78
Audacious? and they do not find Vedrin's picking up Bin Laden's batton relating to support of Israel and America's supposedly imaginary terrorist chimeras?
If there was support for terrorism, it did come out tacitly from the French.
Europe is quaking in its boots. I know Europeans. When they have a problem they fear explaining it lest they feel debased and inferior. They will stubbornly say no no and invoke outrageous reasons when the sole problem was just a little bit of lack of confidence...
This is European inferiority complex amplified to the power 10. They are litteraly sh!ting in their pants. Too bad, may they do so for valid reasons against them that will come to happen. I wonder what kind of blackmail they are under.
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posted on
02/09/2002 12:51:05 PM PST
by
lavaroise
To: LoisHunt
"...If Napoleon had conquered Russia, the Russians would have been free almost 200 years earlier than they were...."Yes. Of course. Freedom at the point of a gun. A splendid vision indeed.
The Third of May 1808
Francisco de Goya
To: LaBelleDameSansMerci
Unlike Hitler, Napoleon was a true military genius and worth studying if only for that. PS - Remember in the movie Patton when George C. Scott quotes that line? It was a great scene.
To: Pokey78
Our President is a very brave man. It's a long way to November, and other Republicans need to play their cards right, but judging by the huge cheers our Dubya draws wherever he goes, it's going to take something really big to make a dent in his popularity. For those who watched the Olympics opening ceremony last night, weren't those roars from the crowd every time the President appeared just wonderful? Music to my ears, that's for sure. It was also really cool that he gave the U.S. athletes a pep talk before the opening ceremonies, joined them in the stands as he officially opened the games, then sat with them for awhile after that. First leader of any country ever to do that. I don't doubt it gave the Secret Service heartburn, but it was a wonderful and brave gesture. I tell ya, at this point I'd follow Dubya anywhere, and I know I'm not alone.
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posted on
02/09/2002 12:55:24 PM PST
by
Wolfstar
To: LaBelleDameSansMerci
Actually, Georges Jaques Danton (a French revolutionary leader) said it. The exact quote is: "Il nous faus de l'audace, encore l'audace, toujours l'audace." Roughly, we must be audacious, still more audacious, always audacious.
To: Wolfstar
It was also really cool that he gave the U.S. athletes a pep talk before the opening ceremonies, joined them in the stands as he officially opened the games, then sat with them for awhile after that. First leader of any country ever to do that.Are you trying to tell me that Franklin Delano Roosevelt didn't sit in the stands with Jesse Owens in the '36 Oleolympics?
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posted on
02/09/2002 1:16:56 PM PST
by
Ole Okie
To: financeprof
My only advice, offered in true humilty, is to take with a large grain
du sel any
bon mot attributed to the celebrities of the Revolution. Their partisans--in life and after death--were apt to graze on other people's vocal chords---if you know what I mean--depending upon which way the wind was farting.
(Of course, that applies to the little coporal a thousand times over! REF...)
To: financeprof
Thank you for that. I too always thought it was Bonaparte who did the audace bit. Of course Nappy died in bed while Danton lost his head on Monsieur Guillotine's clever gadget. There must be a moral there somewhere.
To: Gordian Blade
"...Unlike Hitler, Napoleon was a true military genius and worth studying if only for that. PS - Remember in the movie Patton when George C. Scott quotes that line? It was a great scene...."But this is a subject worthy of its own thousand-post thread!
What have we lost in the march towards dysfunctional Empire? Men like Patton, that's whom! The intelligent, quirky stallion harnessed.
Our Founding Fathers were so brilliant--so precient in so many ways (as the dying often are). I can only read--breathless--the accounts of Washington's showdown in the barn with his officers who were threatening to stage a junta-like revolution because of the insufficiencies of the Second Continental Congress. What a wonderful moment in human history!! All lost and forgotten by the impotent little apparachiks of the modern American bureaucratic/managerial State.
To: deroberst
"...Thank you for that...."You're easy to roll....
To: LaBelleDameSansMerci
Youbetcha
To: Pokey78
Rather than get bogged down over the source of the quote, as some posters to this thread seem to be doing, let's just focus on the article. Barone is one of the most knowledgeable men about politics writing today, and his point that a politician needs to keep pushing an agenda to succeed is well taken.
To: thucydides
I am not bogged down in the source of the quote. I understand the milieu of the quotation very well--and am apalled.
A bon mottossed about in a gathering of fools, however "well meaning", always results in oceans of blood. Consequently, the source of the Word is worth the wade through the bog.
The Word, as you will recall, was made flesh--and changed the world.....
To: deroberst
This sheds a whole new light on "let's roll!"--doesn't it?
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