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The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

The French complain of everything, and always.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

I would rather suffer defeat than have the world know I cheated.

There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

The only way to lead people is to show them a future: a leader is a dealer in hope.

Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.

I am the revolution.

I am the state.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.