“The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary.”

— Napoleon I of France

Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)

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Napoleon I of France 259

French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French 1769–1821

Robertson Davies book The Cunning Man

Part 2, section 6.
The Cunning Man (1994)
Context: The ironist is not bitter, he does not seek to undercut everything that seems worthy or serious, he scorns the cheap scoring-off of the wisecracker. He stands, so to speak, somewhat at one side, observes and speaks with a moderation which is occasionally embellished with a flash of controlled exaggeration. He speaks from a certain depth, and thus he is not of the same nature as the wit, who so often speaks from the tongue and no deeper. The wit's desire is to be funny; the ironist is only funny as a secondary achievement.

“Wit and valor are qualities that are more easily ascertained than virtue, or the love of wisdom.”

Edward Gibbon (1737–1794) English historian and Member of Parliament

Vol. 1, Chap. 1.
The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire: Volume 1 (1776)

“Sleep, soldiers! still in honored rest
Your truth and valor wearing:
The bravest are the tenderest,—
The loving are the daring.”

Bayard Taylor (1825–1878) United States poet, novelist and travel writer

"The Song of the Camp" (1856), in The Poetical Works of Bayard Taylor (1907), p. 86.

“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.”

Thomas Paine (1737–1809) English and American political activist

The Crisis No. IV.
1770s, The American Crisis (1776–1783)

“The balance of political power at any given moment is determined under the influences of fundamental and secondary factors of differing degrees of effectiveness, and only in its fundamental quality is it determined by the state of the development of production.”

Leon Trotsky book Terrorism and Communism

Source: Terrorism and Communism (1920), Ch. 1

“Courage is the highest quality for a soldier, but technology is a fine substitute.”

David Mitchell (1969) English novelist

Part 6
number9dream (2001)

“Turkey serves as an anchor of democracy, freedom, and stability in a region in turmoil. Your own Thomas Paine once wrote, 'Those who, expect to reap the blessings of freedom must… undergo the fatigue of supporting it.' Let me say that in Turkey, we do not feel fatigued by our support of the Western allies because we know that by supporting the allies, we may all continue to reap the blessings of freedom.”

Kenan Evren (1917–2015) Turkish general

US Department of State Bulletin, Sept, 1988 http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1079/is_n2138_v88/ai_6813102/pg_2?tag=artBody;col1
From a statement made in a joint press conference with Ronald Regan during the Turkish president's 1988 trip to Washington, D.C.

“It is only the illiterate beggar who needs full support from you; both in food and better quality of educational programmes.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“As Americans, your country looks with confidence on her adopted children, for a valorous support, as a faithful return for the advantages enjoyed under her mild and equitable government.”

Andrew Jackson (1767–1845) American general and politician, 7th president of the United States

In New Orleans, Louisiana, 1814. As quoted in The Life of Andrew Jackson https://web.archive.org/web/20111029143820/http://home.nas.com/lopresti/ps7.htm (1967), by John Spencer Bassett, Archon Books. p. 156-157.
1810s
Context: As sons of freedom you are now called upon to defend your most inestimable blessing. As Americans, your country looks with confidence on her adopted children, for a valorous support, as a faithful return for the advantages enjoyed under her mild and equitable government.

“The most evil creatures don’t desire the destruction of everything—they only desire to exploit it for themselves.”

Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Seventh Son (1987), Chapter 10.

“The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary.”

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