""It is more than a crime; it is a political fault," —words which I record, because they have been repeated and attributed to others."
— Joseph Fouché

January 1, 1970

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Memoirs of Fouché. Commonly quoted, "It is worse than a crime,—it is a blunder", and attributed to Talleyrand; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).