For my part I see no need for any paper at all except the _Moniteur_ by which the Government may make known its decisions to the people.' 'I am of opinion, Sire,' said the minister, 'that it is better to have open foes than secret ones, and that it is less dangerous to shed ink than blood.

What matter if your enemies have leave to rave in a few Paris papers, as long as you are at the head of five hundred thousand armed men ?' 'Ta, ta, ta!' cried the Emperor impatiently.

'You speak as if I had received my crown from my father the late king.

But even if I had, it would be intolerable, this government by newspaper.

The Bourbons allowed themselves to be criticised, and where are they now?
Had they used their Swiss Guards as I did the Grenadiers upon the eighteenth Brumaire what would have become of their precious National Assembly?
There was a time when a bayonet in the stomach of Mirabeau might have settled the whole matter.