Joseph Fouché Quotes

Joseph Fouché: 3 quotes 5 likes

Famous Joseph Fouché Quotes

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

Joseph Fouché

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".
Context: 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.”

Joseph Fouché

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.”

Joseph Fouché

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).