HONORÉ GABRIEL RIQUETI

(Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau)


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Honoré Gabriel Riqueti

The silence of peoples is something kings should study.
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Honore Gabriel Victor Requiti

Honoré Gabriel Riqueti

I am for the restoration of order, not for the restoration of the old order.
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Honore Gabriel Victor Requiti

Honoré Gabriel Riqueti

If you wish the Jews to become better men and useful citizens, then banish every humiliating restriction, open to them every avenue of gaining a livelihood.
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Honoré Gabriel Riqueti

Don't be so foolish as to ask for more time: calamities will not wait.
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Honoré Gabriel Riqueti

Go and tell those who have sent you that we are here by the will of the nation, and that we will not leave save at the point of bayonets.
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Hideous bankruptcy is here ... yet you deliberate .... Is it so magnanimous ... to give a portion of one's revenue to save all of one's possessions?
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Honore Gabriel Victor Requiti. France was in desperate financial condition and the "radical" notion of an income tax was proposed and debated but the rich nobles violently objected. The tax was not enacted. The French Revolution followed. The nobles lost more than part of their income.

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I admit that what you have just heard might be for the welfare of the country, were it not that the presence of despotism are always dangerous.
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Honore Gabriel Victor Requiti. The French King had just opened the French National Assembly which contained deputies (delegates) from the clergy, the nobility and the people. The King had made what some deputies thought was a very constructive and responsible speech opening the assembly. Mirabeau observed that as long as there was an absolute monarch in place, even a benign one. It was the presence of a monarch itself that was evil.

Honoré Gabriel Riqueti

War is the national industry of Germany [Prussia].
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Honoré Gabriel Riqueti

I know of only three ways of living in society: one must be a beggar, a thief, or a wage earner.
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Honoré Gabriel Riqueti

I will not speak of tolerance. The freedom of conscience is a right so sacred that even the name of "tolerance" involves a species of tyranny.
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  • Profession: Ariter, Orator, Statesman, Revolutionary
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Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, Count of Mirabeau (9 March 1749 – 2 April 1791) was a French writer, orator, statesman and a prominent figure of the early stages of the French Revolution. A member of the nobility, Mirabeau had been involved in numerous scandals that had left his reputation in ruins.