Sovereignty lies in me alone. The legislative power is mine unconditionally and indivisibly. The public order emanates from me, and I am its supreme guardian. My people is one with me.
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Compare: L'État, c'est moi (“I am the state”, lit. “the state, that is me”), attributed to Louis XIV | Reported in: Bergan Evans, ed., Dictionary of Quotations (1968), p. 658