And, admitting the temporary necessity of the dictatorship, it is absolute folly to expect under it the liberty and ease of a regular government.
What has saved him with me from the beginning was his appeal to the people, and what makes his government respectable in my eyes is the answer of the people to that appeal.

Being a democrat, I dare to be so _consequently_.

There never was a more legitimate chief of a State than Louis Napoleon is now--elected by seven millions and a half; and I do maintain that, ape or demi-god, to insult him where he is, is to insult the people who placed him there.

As to the stupid outcry in England about forced votes, voters pricked forward by bayonets--why, nothing can be more stupid.

Nobody not blinded by passion could maintain such a thing for a moment.