“I can’t divide Camille’s loyalties. Who knows? He might make the wrong choice.” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
The King did not summon the Estates because he needed them, but out of his own pleasure. — Jacques Necker Copy Share Image
It [August 10th 1792] was the bloodiest day of the Revolution so far, but also one of the most decisive. — William Doyle Copy Share Image
“My father doesn’t have views. He would like to, but he can’t take the risk.” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“The Revolution is your bride,” he said. “As the Church is the Bride of Christ.” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
My historical knowledge of the French Revolution is based on 17 viewings of History of the World, Part I. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One must never compromise with tyrants. One can only strike at kings through the head. Nothing can be expected from European kings… — Georges Danton Copy Share Image
“Bakers can’t bake bread because they can’t get flour. So why do people burn wheat fields and kill bakers when it’s their… — Debra Borchert Copy Share Image
“It would mean Morny had no loyalty at all to Louis XVIII or the constitutional monarchy or anything else he has swon… — Lynn Messina Copy Share Image
This is the end and the beginning of an age. This is something far greater than the French Revolution or the Reformation… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
I think we have to understand that the nation-state became powerful in the wake of the French Revolution, whereas the nation-state has… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
Europeans are forever the offspring of Machiavelli, trapped in a historical rollercoaster that can bring us a monarchy-toppling French Revolution and then… — Loretta Napoleoni Copy Share Image
How could liberty ever establish itself amongst us? Apart from a few tragic scenes, the revolution has been nothing but a web… — Jean-Paul Marat Copy Share Image
“A lot of the left wants social change to look like the French Revolution or Che Guevara. Maybe changing the world is… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Messengers wait outside the door, to carry urgent orders for release. It is difficult, when the pen skips over a name, to… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de (1757–1834), French soldier and statesman. He fought alongside the American colonists in… — Angus Stevenson Copy Share Image
“If one looks back to the French Revolution, one sees just how easy it is for the doctrine of “human rights” to… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
In the history and literature courses I took, epistemological questions came to interest me most. What makes one explanation of the French… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
[We need] someone bold, to put himself at the head of the disaffected and rally them against the oppressor. Some great character… — Jean-Paul Marat Copy Share Image
It was a real revolution. But with one missing feature. That is the feeling in a people that "We have done it… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
The envious are not satisfied with equality; they secretly yearn for superiority and revenge. In the French Revolution of 1848, a woman… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“I went back to de Tocqueville. After studying the French Revolution, he wrote that revolts tend to start not in places where… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
“There are two main traditions of English writing: the one of perfect liberty, that of Chaucer and Shakespeare, completely outspoken, with a… — Frank Harris Copy Share Image
One wonders why there are so many women who follow Robespierre to his home, to the Jacobins, to the Cordeliers and to… — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet Copy Share Image
Unlike the rationalism of the French Revolution, true liberalism has no quarrel with religion, and I can only deplore the militant and… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“I resent you—” Robespierre said. His words were lost. “The People,” he shouted, “are everywhere good, and if they obstruct the Revolution—even,… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“...As the evening wore on (the supper did not end until seven in the morning), the public were admitted to watch the… — Giles MacDonogh Copy Share Image
“Revolution was the great nightmare of eighteenth-century British society, and when first the American Revolution of 1776, then the French Revolution of… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“The topic of women’s participation in the French Revolution has generally received little attention from historians, who have displayed a tendency to… — Shirley Elson-Roessler Copy Share Image
“However, as a guarantee of its renewed youth, the symbolical phoenix never reappeared before the eyes of the world without having consumed… — Éliphas Lévi 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
“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
“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
“Loving, of enemies is another dogma of feigned morality, and has besides no meaning. It is incumbent on man, as a moralist,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“I have always been interested in this man . My father had a set of Tom Paine 's books on the shelf… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
“In the eighteenth century, with the growth of publishing and with the intellectual climate of the Enlightenment, there was a great demand… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
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