A revolution is bloody, but America is in a unique position. She's the only country in history in a position actually to… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
From the days of Spartacus, Weishophf, Karl Marx, Trotski, Belacoon, Rosa Luxenburg, and Ema Goldman, this world conspiracy has been steadily growing.… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Historically, nationalism was a liberal-left phenomenon. The French Revolution was a nationalist revolution, but it was also seen as a left-liberal one… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“ [Mr. Bates comments on the description of Robespierre in History of the French Revolution by M. J. L. Adolphe Thiers] He… — Edward Bates Copy Share Image
“The Jacobin Club got its name in a roundabout way. Originally a group of Bretons who came to Versailles to attend the… — Bernardine Kielty Copy Share Image
“In this new hall the factions regroup in their old places. Legendre the butcher bawls out a Brissotin: “I’ll slaughter you!” “First,”… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
In fact, after having abolished the monarchy, the best of all governments, [the French Revolution] had transferred all the public power to… — Pope Pius VI 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
“What are the present governments of Europe, but a scene of iniquity and oppression? What is that of England? Do not its… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Louis XVI started to die on June 21st 1791. For his flight tore away the veil of that false constitutional monarchy, and… — Francois Furet 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
The transformations of the French empire itself or of French power structures themselves as well as the emergence of a kind of… — Laurent Dubois Copy Share Image
