Charles Alexandre de Calonne Quotes

I shall easily show that it is impossible to tax further, ruinous to be always borrowing and not enough to confine ourselves to measures of economy.

Charles Alexandre de Calonne

• Enough
• Revolution
• Impossible
• Economy

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• The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.

  

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• Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.

  

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• The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other.

  

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• You get to bring your own sound system when you play an arena, all the lights and visual stuff, which I think is really cool. There's something about those old arenas, where it feels larger than life.

  

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• I shall easily show that it is impossible to tax further, ruinous to be always borrowing and not enough to confine ourselves to measures of economy.

  

  Charles Alexandre de Calonne
  • Enough
  • Revolution
  • Impossible