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„Das ist mehr als ein Verbrechen, das ist ein Fehler!“

[soll Polizeiminister Fouché (1763—1820), andere nennen Talleyrand, über die Hinrichtung (20.3.1803) des Herzogs d'Enghien durch Konsul Bonaparte gesagt haben.] - Georg Büchmann: Geflügelte Worte. 19. Aufl. 1898. S. 487 http://susning.nu/buchmann/0521.html <br class="br">«C'est plus qu'un crime, dis-je, c'est une faute!» [paroles que je rapporte, parce qu'elles ont été répétées et attribuées à d'autres.] - Memoires de Joseph Fouché, Duc d'Otrante. Bruxelles 1825 books.google p. 199 http://books.google.de/books?id=8cUQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA199

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“Terror, salutary terror, is here in truth the order of the day”

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In a letter to the Committee of Public Safety while Representative on Mission in the City of Lyon, December 1793; reported in The Court and Camp of Buonaparte (1829), p. 65. See also Caroline Moorehead, Dancing to the Precipice: The Life of Lucie de la Tour Du Pin, Eyewitness to an Era (2010), p. 177, quoting the phrase as "Terror, salutary terror, is the order of the day".
Kontext: Terror, salutary terror, is here in truth the order of the day; it represses all the efforts of the wicked; it divests crime of all covering and tinsel!

“Death is an eternal sleep.”

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Inscription placed by his orders on the Gates of the Cemeteries in 1794; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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

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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).