“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’s all right for you, you and Danton. I have to go and stutter for two hours at the Jacobins and probably… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“CAMILLE DESMOULINS: For the establishment of liberty and the safety of the nation, one day of anarchy will do more than ten… — Hilary Mantel 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
“To narrow natural rights to such neat slogans as "liberty, equality, fraternity" or "life, liberty, property," . . . was to ignore… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
I mean, already in the French Revolution, the harpsichord becomes identified with the aristocracy, with the ancien regime. Plus, hey, you know,… — Mahan Esfahani 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
If you look back at the history of creativity in clothes - the French Revolution, the First World War and the Second… — Christian Lacroix Copy Share Image
When one meddles with the direction of a revolution, the problem is not how to make it go but how to keep… — Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau Copy Share Image
“The late modern era has seen unprecedented levels not only of violence and horror, but also of peace and tranquillity. Charles Dickens… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The Enlightened spirit is not like some safe cracker whose ear is pressed to the metal while his fingers imperceptibly turn a… — Joshua Gibbs Copy Share Image
“{ Comment to Delambre on chemist Antoine Lavoisier 's execution during the French Revolution } Only a moment to cut off that… — Joseph-Louis Lagrange Copy Share Image
“Some authors have argued that a direct historical line can be drawn to Nazism from the French Revolution of 1789, the Jacobin… — Richard J. Evans Copy Share Image
I think it impossible that the great monarchies of Europe can last much longer. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
In 1800, in the first interparty contest, the Federalists warned that presidential candidate Thomas Jefferson, because of his sympathy expressed at the… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
“...more men and women were slaughtered in a couple of weeks of the terror of the atheistic French Revolution than in a… — Michael Coren Copy Share Image
It took us a long time to get rid of the effects of the French Revolution 200 years ago. We don't want… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past. — John Corigliano Copy Share Image
“Hérault, Fabre thinks: and his mind drifts back—as it tends to, these days— to the Café du Foy. He’d been giving readings… — 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
No secular state ever existed and none would exist until the end of the French Revolution, and so we understand that America… — Rod Parsley Copy Share Image
“Sir, sir, I am sorry for Marie Antoinette, archduchess and queen; but I am also sorry for that poor Huguenot woman, who,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Ask Robespierre. Ask the man with the conscience which is more important, your friend or your country— ask him how he weighs… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“The main thing is, the constraints have come off style. What we are saying now is that the Revolution does not proceed… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Here is everything I know about France: Madeline and Amelie and Moulin Rouge. The Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe, although… — Stephanie Perkins Copy Share Image
