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To: bert

“L’audace, l’audace, toujours l’audace.”
(Audacity, audacity, always audacity.)
- attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte


7 posted on 08/23/2012 5:24:16 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Roger Taney? Not a bad Chief Justice. John Roberts? A really awful Chief Justice.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Thank you, thank you, thank you

I can’t spell l’audace

The quote is also attributed to General Patton who later picked it up and for whom it was a maxim.


8 posted on 08/23/2012 5:29:50 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Present failure and impending death yield irrational action))
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To: ClearCase_guy

Actually said by Georges-Jacques Danton on Sept. 2, 1792.


20 posted on 08/23/2012 3:23:37 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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