Honoré Gabriel Riqueti Quotes
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.
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.
Honore de Mirabeau, 1749-1791, Revolutionary & President of the National Assembly of France, Speech to the Peoples’ Delegates, May, 1789
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