My success in initiating the greatest people's movement of all time is due to my never having done anything in violation of the vital laws and feelings of the mass.

These feelings may be primitive, but they have the resistance and indestructibility of natural qualities.

A once intensely felt experience in the life of the masses, like ration cards and inflation, will never again be driven out of their blood.

The masses have a simple system of thinking and feeling, and anything that cannot be fitted into it disturbs them.

It is only because I take their vital laws into consideration that I can rule them."] [Footnote 2526: Moniteur, XII.