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French Revolution Quotes by Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau
- I shall make it my chief business to see that the [royal] executive power has its place in the constitution.
- When one meddles with the direction of a revolution, the problem is not how to make it go but how to keep it under control.
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