"All grandeur, all power, and all subordination to……" — Joseph de Maistre

All grandeur, all power, and all subordination to authority rests on the… - Joseph de Maistre

"All grandeur, all power, and all subordination to authority rests on the executioner: he is the horror and the bond of human association. Remove this incomprehensible agent from the world and at that very moment order gives way to chaos, thrones topple and society disappears."

— Joseph de Maistre

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