Maximilien De Bethune, Duke of Sully Quotes
Whenever we see a state conducted by measures contrary to those made use of in its foundation, we may be assured a great revolution is at hand.
Duc de Sully
Maximilien De Bethune, 1560-1641, French Minister of Finance, Rossiter Johnson, The Great Events, 1905
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Francisco Ascaso, Buenaventura Durruti, Juan Garcia Oliver, Aurelio Fernandez, Ricardo Sanz, Gregorio Jover, Antonio Ortiz and Antonio Martinez Valencia
Khrushchev did not originate this quotation. It was first stated by Lenin. See {620087}.
Harding, not the most historically knowledgeable of American Presidents, had forgotten the revolutionary origin of the United States or its drastically experimental nature. It was the fear of Communism and the Russian Revolution that gave revolution a bad name at the time.
1st Baron Lytton of Knebworth
1st Earl of Beaconsfield
This was the group that decided who was to be executed in the Reign of Terror
Vladimir Lenin. In 1957 Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev used the first sentence of this quotation in a speech to the Supreme Soviet. See {240121}. He did not say that he was quoting Lenin, but many of the delegates probably knew this.
Maximilien de Béthune, 1st Duke of Sully, Marquis of Rosny and Nogent, Count of Muret and Villebon, Viscount of Meaux was a nobleman, soldier, statesman, and counselor of King Henry IV of France. Historians emphasize Sully's role in building a strong centralized administrative system in France using coercion and highly effective new administrative techniques. While not all of his policies were original, he used them well to revitalize France after the European Religious Wars. Most, however, were repealed by later monarchs who preferred absolute power. Historians have also studied his Neostoicism and his ideas about virtue, prudence, and discipline.
