"I have allowed the president to pick his political appointees…But I will not sit quietly and let him shred the Constitution."

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The most extravagant idea that can be born in the head of a political thinker is to believe that it suffices for people to enter, weapons in hand, among a foreign people and expect to have its laws and constitution embraced. No one loves armed missionaries; the first lesson of nature and prudence is to repulse them as enemies.

— Maximilien Robespierre