[magooey]

Karem said ... "We are the people.

And Cardinal Richelieu said that he himself was the State, "L'Etat c'est moi". How totalitarians think!

[RitchieAprile]

that was the Sun King, Louis XIV, on his deathbed, and what he said was “Je m’en vais, mais l’État demeurera toujours.
(I am going away, but the State will always remain.)”