There were two, three or four French Revolutions. Like a multi-stage rocket today, the Revolution involved several successive explosions and propellant thrusts. — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
I bold it impossible, that the great monarchies of Europe can subsist much longer; they all affect magnificence and splendor. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I shall easily show that it is impossible to tax further, ruinous to be always borrowing and not enough to confine ourselves… — Charles Alexandre de Calonne 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
“Davy’s work in Bristol came under attack by conservative politicians, including the famous Irish MP Edmund Burke, who accused the gas experiments… — Mark Kurlansky 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
“A sensibility that wails almost exclusively over the enemies of liberty seems suspect to me. Stop shaking the tyrant's bloody robe in… — Maximilien Robespierre 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
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
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
My History of the Jesuits is in four volumes… This society has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“God knows,” Charpentier said, “I like the present scheme of things very little, but I dread to think what will happen if… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“This society [Jesuits] has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution, or Napoleon 's despotism or ideology. It has… — John Adams 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
Jacobins, I have a truth to tell you. You do not know your most deadly enemies; they are the constitutional priests. It… — Jean-Paul Marat Copy Share Image
However much the various phases of the French Revolution may have modelled themselves on Roman history the early phase on Republican virtue,… — Kenneth Clark 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
“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
“All in all, French armies wrought much suffering in Europe, but they also radically changed the lay of the land. In much… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
“Georges was in a rage. It is a spectacle to comtemplate, his rage. He tore off his cravat, strode about the room,… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“The defenders retreated, but in good order. A musket flamed and a ball shattered a marine’s collar bone, spinning him around. The… — David Cook Copy Share Image
“It is the observer of the pun that makes it, my dear Brumm. Of course, when the word is distorted, as in… — John Davidson Copy Share Image
“Marx’s Manifesto, published in 1847, reflects the state of historical science of the period. It fixes the thirteenth century as the beginning… — Régine Pernoud 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 scientific and societal achievements of the modern age are undisputable. But after the French Revolution, modernity increasingly emancipated itself from Christian… — Walter Kasper Copy Share Image
I shall die in the belief that to make France free, republican and prosperous, a little ink would have sufficed - and… — Camille Desmoulins Copy Share Image
“But just as everything was going along politely, quietly and wonderfully — in poured Citizen Danton and his crew.” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“May 29, the Central Committee of the Sections goes into “permanent session” — what a fine, crisis-ridden sound it has, that term!” — Hilary Mantel 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
“The Revolution has got frozen up. They have frozen it up with their talk of moderation. To stand still in Revolution is… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“A pottery outside Paris was turning out his picture on thick glazed crockery in a strident yellow and blue. This is what… — Hilary Mantel 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
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
“{ 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
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
The French Revolution will be found to have had great influence on the strength of parties, and on the subsequent political transactions… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
The French Revolution was nothing but a precursor of another revolution, one that will be bigger, more solemn, and which will be… — Francois-Noel Babeuf 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
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 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
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