"Nous sommes assemblés par la volonté nationale, nous n’en sortirons que par la force."

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Reply of Mirabeau to the Marquis de Dreux-Brézé, Grand Master of the Ceremonies, when sent by Louis XVI, on 23 June 1789, to dissolve the National Assembly, according to the version given by the Marquis’ son, , in the French House of Peers on 9 March 1833. Source: Classical and Foreign Quotations, 3rd ed. (1904), no. 1805