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“If God gives me a long life and allows me to carry out my task, then Brussels will become a city of exceptional category.”

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“Excuse me, dear niece, for this letter, which is really just a health bulletin. Especially concerned with a health so dear to me, I am almost unable to speak of anything else.”

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Author:Leopold II

“You don't have to worry in the least, because in Belgium you will be able to enjoy all the benefits with which I will shower you, choose your replacement carefully, and appoint him only with my approval, until then then you will remain on your post my faithful cloak. May God guide and support you in the missions I entrust to you for the sake of my subjects, I wish that all your duties have already been carried out, so that when you come to Belgium I can prove to you that I am a true friend my faithful cloak, I pray to God that he may protect you.”

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Author:Leopold II

“Sometimes I wonder how the world would look if every single one of our cups were overflowing. There would be so much good to go around. So much good health. So much prosperity. So much beautiful life.”

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Source: Walking in My Joy: In These Streets

“Il suffit d’oser pour réussir”

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Author:Leopold II

“We are going to democratize the chamber and the senate, we also have to democratize the monarchy, give it the opportunity, when it feels the need to obtain direct advice, support from the changing electoral corps.”

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Author:Leopold II

“My dear General, the Belgian state, will shortly issue a government loan of fifty million, France is writing one of two and a half billion, please ask Lambert to inform you of the condition of the French operation, as for the Belgian loan, leave it to me to try and get information from the ministers, but don't say anything to Lambert, if the French government loan yields 5 or 6 percent I will invest a large sum in it, if the interest is lower then I won't subscribe to it.”

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Author:Leopold II

“Si au lieu de parler de neutralité, la Chambre s’occupait de notre commerce, la Belgique deviendrait le plus riche du monde”

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Author:Leopold II

“De tous les débouchés, le plus sûr et le plus stable, aussi bien pour les produits que pour les capitaux, est évidemment celui d’une colonie”

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Author:Leopold II

“Je travaille toujours, mais il faut commencer par mettre en avant un arrangement diplomatique. Ce point obtenu, nous aurions de grandes chances de succès. Pour le moment, le mot d’expédition belge en Chine ne doit être prononcé à aucun prix”

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Author:Leopold II

“Il ne faut pas qu’un Prince parle le langage des tribuns et qu’il proclame des principes absolus dans des termes qui sont de nature à blesser profondément ceux qui sont d’un autre avis que le sien”

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Author:Leopold II