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    What French political leader said at the time of the French Revolution, that the difficulty was not to make a revolution, but to keep it in check?

    Question #116700. Asked by flem-ish. (Aug 12 10 10:33 PM)


    DomiNeyTor

    		Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau
    (quote appears near the end of the article)

    http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-10-21/site/ct-oped-1021-libya-20111021_1_new-constitution-post-gadhafi-libya-national-transitional-council

    As the French revolutionary Mirabeau once said, "when you undertake to run a revolution, the difficulty is not to make it go; it is to hold it in check." Slowing down and engaging the public is the best way to channel the revolutionary optimism into a stable governance structure for the future.

    May 04 12, 2:06 PM

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