“The revolutionary Terror, which is attacked for its revolutionary tribunal, its law of suspects and its guillotine, was a process welded to… — Sophie Wahnich Copy Share Image
“But France's powerful armies, and a very large number of fortresses, ensure that the French Sovereign will possess the throne forever, and… — Frederick the Great Copy Share Image
“It sounds nicer than it seems in the book," she would say. "I never cared about Mary, Queen of Scots, before, and… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
You are not thinking hard enough if you are sleeping well. And you would have to be unhinged to take on a… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
“I know what you want. One month after the ascension of Philippe the Gullible, M. Laclos found in a gutter, deceased. Blamed… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“The slave-trade and slavery were the economic basis of the French Revolution. ‘Sad irony of human history,’ comments Jaurès. ‘The fortunes created… — C.L.R. James Copy Share Image
However much the various phases of the French Revolution may have modelled themselves on Roman history the early phase on Republican virtue,… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
“The nobility above all could not understand how it could possibly regenerate itself in assemblies where no provision had been made for… — Emmanuel Sieyés Copy Share Image
Most observers of the French Revolution, especially the clever and noble ones, have explained it as a life-threatening and contagious illness. They… — Novalis Copy Share Image
“To understand the rise of Christianity or the French Revolution, it is not enough to comprehend the interaction of genes, hormones and… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
There is a noticeable general difference between the sciences and mathematics on the one hand, and the humanities and social sciences on… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“The idea of the “people,” as the fount of legitimate order ... has been of some service to the left-liberal intellectual in… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“This entails certain corollaries on which true individualism once more stands in sharp opposition to the false individualism of the rationalistic type.… — Friedrich A. Hayek Copy Share Image
“Goethe (I don’t know why, but Goethe somehow always speaks up in my critical moments) said: “Man must experience his own destiny”… — Sándor Márai Copy Share Image
“The matter on which I judge people is their willingness, or ability, to handle contradiction. Thus Paine was better than Burke when… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“You hear, O LORD, the desire of the afflicted; you encourage them, and you listen to their cry. . . . PSALM 10:17 OCTOBER 1… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
“The values we rightly associate with the modern age - the "liberty, equality, and fraternity" of the French revolution - are all… — Harvey Cox Copy Share Image
“The essence and value of the law lies in its stability and durability (...), in its “relative eternity.” Only then does the… — Carl Schmitt Copy Share Image
To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I am no one’s agent. I am the agent of the law. All the conspiracies pass through my hands. The Committee, you… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Some years ago, I read Thomas Carlyle's history of the French Revolution, and I was very taken by the way he told… — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
“So it might be speculated that the British exported their dissidents and so suffered their revolution three thousand miles away from home… — Timothy C.W. Blanning Copy Share Image
It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Among the lessons taught by the French revolution, there is none sadder or more striking than this--that you may make everything else… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Provence and Artois will be back. Antoinette. She will resume her state. The priests will be back. Children now in their cradles… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Do you know Camille Desmoulins?” he asked. “Have you seen him? He’s one of these law-school boys. Never used anything more dangerous… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Madame Tallien shared honors with Josephine Beauharnais in being mistress to Barras, an ex-nobleman and ex-terrorist whose appetite for beautiful women, beautiful… — J. Christopher Herold Copy Share Image
“Abroad? Oh no. I went to England in ’91, and you stood in the garden at Fontenay and berated me.” He shook… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Monarchy is an outrage which even the blind of an entire people cannot justify... all men hold from nature the secret mission… — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Copy Share Image
Jacobins, I have a truth to tell you. You do not know your most deadly enemies; they are the constitutional priests. It… — Jean-Paul Marat Copy Share Image
“God knows,” Charpentier said, “I like the present scheme of things very little, but I dread to think what will happen if… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“This society [Jesuits] has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution, or Napoleon 's despotism or ideology. It has… — John Adams Copy Share Image
When a people, having become free, establish wise laws, their revolution is complete... Peace and prosperity, public virtue, victory, everything is in… — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Copy Share Image
My History of the Jesuits is in four volumes… This society has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Human rights did not begin with the French Revolution...[they] really stem from a mixture of Judaism and Christianity...[we English] had 1688, our… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The Allies had made war on Napoleon as a tyrant and an oppressor of nations; yet once they had got him out… — J. Christopher Herold Copy Share Image
It was 1953, and I was still at school. I'd borrowed a silent French film from the library for my 9.5mm projector.… — Kevin Brownlow Copy Share Image
The men who were running the church in the late '60s and '70s panicked when they saw the chaos, which developed after… — Andrew Greeley Copy Share Image
My social philosophy may be said to be enshrined in three words: liberty, equality and fraternity. Let no one, however, say that… — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
The French revolution was a .eune invented and constructed for the purpose of manufacturing liberty; but it had neither lever cogs, nor… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
![“This society [Jesuits] has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution, or Napoleon 's despotism or ideology. It has obstructed the progress of reformation and the improvement of the human mind in society much longer and more fatally. { Letter to Thomas Jefferson , November 4…” quote by John Adams](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/7b5/john-adams-529_calamity_this-society-jesuits-has-been-a-greater_2706641.jpg)
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