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Joseph Fouché
Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau
Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès
Émile Ollivier
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Charles Alexandre de Calonne

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If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.

Cardinal Richelieu
Cardinal Richelieu
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Of France:
A nation of monkeys with the throat of parrots.

Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès
Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès
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"It is more than a crime; it is a political fault," —words which I record, because they have been repeated and attributed to others.

Joseph Fouché
Joseph Fouché
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I have always perceived, or nearly so, the defects of those I love; and such defects are the only ones I can see clearly. But for the want of archangels, we must love imperfect creatures.

Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau
Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau
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Madam, if a thing is possible, consider it done; the impossible? that will be done.

Charles Alexandre de Calonne
Charles Alexandre de Calonne
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One is never weaker than when one appears to have everybody's support.

Émile Ollivier
Émile Ollivier
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A minister who moves about in society is in a position to read the signs of the times even in a festive gathering, but one who remains shut up in his office learns nothing.

Duc de Choiseul
Duc de Choiseul

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