"Le silence du peuple est la leçon des rois."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
The passage is as follows:—Le peuple n’a pas, sans doute, le droit de murmurer; mais, sans doute aussi, il a le droit de se taire; et son silence est la leçon des rois.—"The people, no doubt, has not the right to murmur; but, as certainly also, it has the right to hold its peace, and the people’s silence is a lesson to its king." The preacher was contrasting the unpopularity of the king’s latter years with the earlier part of his reign. On the Good Friday previous (1 April 1774), the same prelat
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Honor%C3%A9_Gabriel_Riqueti%2C_comte_de_Mirabeau
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau
3 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau →
Related Quotes
"Nous sommes assemblés par la volonté nationale, nous n’en sortirons que par la force."
"[Insert French]"
"Le désir de s'enrichir est leur passion dominante, et à vrai dire leur seule passion."
"Aux États-Unis la nature, comme la société, n'est pas toujours belle, mais elle est toujours grande."
"... many Europeans today go to Pelasgians, who are no less distant or savage, and for equally slight gains, to discov…"
"Men call physicians only when they suffer; women, when they are merely afflicted with ennui."
"To weep is not always to suffer."
"If you would succeed in the world, it is necessary that, when entering a salon, your vanity should bow to that of oth…"
"Homeliness is the best guardian of a young girl's virtue."
"The woman who loves us is only a woman, but the woman we love is a celestial being whose defects disappear under the …"