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
“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
“Did you know there are three palaces at Versailles? How many does one family need when thousands have no homes? I don’t… — Debra Borchert Copy Share Image
Cravats grow higher, as if they mean to protect the throat. The highest cravats in public life will be worn by Citizen… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Any one who studies the state of things which preceded the French Revolution will see that that tremendous catastrophe came about from… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“There was no more reasonable sequitur between “provocation” and “reaction” in the case of the French Revolution than in the case of… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn 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
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
Lafayette saw himself as the protector of royalty; they [the king and his family] considered him its gaoler. — William Doyle Copy Share Image
“And in time"-his voice rose-"there will come a generation that had got beyond facts, beyond impressions, a generation absolutely colourless, a generation… — Henry James Copy Share Image
The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The revolution is the war of liberty against its enemies. The constitution is the rule of liberty against its enemies. The constitution… — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
“Laclos thought, how about a one-way ticket to Pennsylvania? You’d enjoy life among the Quakers. Alternatively, how about a nice dip in… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“What an interesting and exciting thought. We may be only one of millions of advanced civilizations. Unfortunately, space being spacious, the average… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“So at midnight, the heart of the metropolis of modern civilization was secretly trod by this jaunty barbarian in broadcloth; a sort… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“The French Revolution gave history its first instance of modern leftist illiberalism -- an embrace of tyranny in the name of the… — Kim R. Holmes 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
Liberté, égalité, fraternité. Liberty, equality, fraternity. Watchword of French Revolution. And bold and hard adventures t' undertake, Leaving his country for his… — Charles Fitzgeoffrey Copy Share Image
“With France as she is, poor and unarmed, war means defeat. Defeat means either a military dictator who will salvage what he… — Hilary Mantel 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 his youth, Wordsworth sympathized with the French Revolution, went to France, wrote good poetry and had a natural daughter. At this… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“He stepped back, looked up. Cut into the stone above his head were the words RUE MARAT. For a moment he had… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
“God knows what risks we take, God knows all that Danton has done. God and Camille. God will keep his mouth shut.” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
The ministers and the Jacobins are making the king declare war tomorrow on Austria. The ministers are hoping that this move will… — Marie Antoinette Copy Share Image
