“If you give me six lines written by the most honest man, I will find something in them to hang him.”

Cardinal Richelieu ~~~ Chief Minister to King Louis X!!! & antagonist in Dumas' "Three Musketeers"

Nowhere can one find out the source of this quote - did he actually say it, or has it just entered folk lore as something he ought to have said?

Wasn't it attributed to Voltaire ?

One of the worst tyrants to ever live. Knowing the raging fight between Protestantism and Catholicism. Like the fall and rise of a house of cards.

We have thousands of laws and it's probably impossible not to violate one almost daily.

Same as it ever was. Few (if anyone) can withstand the the full weight of the State. We must stand behind our persecuted brothers and sisters.

MSM provides a great affirming example of the statement's topic (not reporting the news or repeating an event but rather, hostly twisting anything that does not support favorably a version of their theocratic progressivism).

Mr Cardinal Richelieu would have to understand some semblance of honesty himself and then he would find hanging individuals quite dishonest. Human beings promote the sanctity and vitality of life.