“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
“Some people know they are condemned; some have time to pray, and others die struggling and screaming, fighting to their last breath.… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Tea, late dinners and the French Revolution. I cannot exactly see the connection of ideas. — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
“In Paris the swaying lanterns are lit in the streets; lights shine through water, fuzzy, diffuse. Saint-Just sits by an insufficient fire,… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“After the defeat of the German Revolution in 1848 German Nationalism lost much of its original liberalism. Worship of State and Race… — Hugh Seton-Watson 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
“But further, Hobbesian individualism required that traditional independent social authorities be eliminated or suppressed. Benjamin Constant, who was a keen observer of… — Donald W. Livingston 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
The Allies had made war on Napoleon as a tyrant and an oppressor of nations; yet once they had him out of… — J. Christopher Herold Copy Share Image
I shall make it my chief business to see that the [royal] executive power has its place in the constitution. — Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau 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 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
In comparison to the French Revolution, the American Revolution has come to seem a parochial and rather dull event. This, despitethe fact… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
“I can’t divide Camille’s loyalties. Who knows? He might make the wrong choice.” — Hilary Mantel 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
“Men who, in the best of circumstances and with all the ability to dictate all that would have been just, fine, and… — Emmanuel Sieyés 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
It's not uncommon for revolutions to stem from a radicalized group just outside the circle of power. That's what the French Revolution… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
“He was guillotined in the French Revolution, and he said he’d keep blinking his eyes after his head was off, for as… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
Here, the revolution was prepared. Here it was achieved. Here all the great events were fostered. — Georges Couthon Copy Share Image
“Life’s going to change. You thought it already had? Not nearly as much as it’s going to change now. Everything you disapprove… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“I want to make love to the French Revolution. Or maybe just get some head from Robespierre.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
We don't want to be like the leader in the French Revolution who said There go my people, I must find out… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“[T]he great decided effective Majority is now for the Republic," he told Jefferson in late October 1792, but whether it would endure… — Melanie Randolph Miller Copy Share Image
“We think of 1789 as the date of the French Revolution, and the storming of the Bastille as its defining event. Yet… — Mike Jay Copy Share Image
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