“French Revolution- all them fellas the figgered her out got their heads chopped off. Always that way, jus as natural as rain.… — Anonymous 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
The French revolution was a .eune invented and constructed for the purpose of manufacturing liberty; but it had neither lever cogs, nor… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
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
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
“Ninety-three" was the war of Europe against France, and of France against Paris. And what was the Revolution? It was the victory… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
If you look back at the history of creativity in clothes - the French Revolution, the First World War and the Second… — Christian Lacroix Copy Share Image
How many really great writers are there who are totally non-political? You can hear the French Revolution in the poetry of [Percy… — Adam Hochschild 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
“We must think of human progress, not as of something going on in the race in general, but as of something going… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Suppose he found that persistent unsparing voice at his elbow one day, claiming that Danton lacked probity; he had an answer, pat,… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“One might say that romance with revolution died with Solzhenitsyn. The line from Bastille to the gulag is not straight, but the… — Charles Krauthammer 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
“Actually it is hard to find “martyrs for science.” Though one can find examples under materialist, atheistic systems as, for example, during… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The war, like all wars, was proving more expensive for the Bourbons than planned. Since the alliance, France had advanced to the… — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
“The lives of thousands of young Frenchmen were ready for this literary bath of blood and sentiment in the 1830's. Their fathers… — Francis Steegmuller 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
“There is no need for unanimity,” Saint- Just said. “It would have been desirable, but let’s get on. There are only two… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Nothing will make me change my principles. Even with the knife at my neck I shall still declare, up to this day,… — Jean-Paul Marat 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
“You must, of course. Robespierre doesn’t lie or cheat or steal, doesn’t get drunk, doesn’t fornicate—overmuch. He’s not a hedonist or a… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
We must institute a coup d'etat, a third revolution, which must beat down anarchy. Dissolve the Paris Commune and destroy its sections!… — Jacques Pierre Brissot Copy Share Image
“It sounds nicer than it seems in the book," she would say. "I never cared about Mary, Queen of Scots, before, and… — Frances Hodgson Burnett 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
“The revolutionary Terror, which is attacked for its revolutionary tribunal, its law of suspects and its guillotine, was a process welded to… — Sophie Wahnich Copy Share Image
“But France's powerful armies, and a very large number of fortresses, ensure that the French Sovereign will possess the throne forever, and… — Frederick the Great Copy Share Image
“Even then, she still held a secret passion for Mozart. When he died in 1791, her grief made her provoke the people… — Yasutaka Tsutsui Copy Share Image
“Three of the revolutions," Bermuda said, "the French, the Russian, and the American, were true only in the beginning. Just true in… — Allan Dare Pearce Copy Share Image
From 1789, perhaps even before that, it had been the willingness of politicians to exploit either the threat or the fact of… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
No secular state ever existed and none would exist until the end of the French Revolution, and so we understand that America… — Rod Parsley 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
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
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
“Victor Hugo continues to be popular today not because of his multivolume works, which people may never have time or patience to… — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
“I am no one’s agent. I am the agent of the law. All the conspiracies pass through my hands. The Committee, you… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display… — Oscar Wilde 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
“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
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
“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
![“How many really great writers are there who are totally non-political? You can hear the French Revolution in the poetry of [Percy Bysshe] Shelly and [John] Wordsworth; you can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy.” quote by Adam Hochschild](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/544/adam-hochschild-4138_chekhov_how-many-really-great-writers-are-there_1459719.jpg)
![“[T]he great decided effective Majority is now for the Republic," he told Jefferson in late October 1792, but whether it would endure for even six months "must depend on the Form of Government which shall be presented by the Convention" and whether it could "strike out that happy Mean which secures…” quote by Melanie Randolph Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c5e/melanie-randolph-miller-190458_divine-providence_t-he-great-decided-effective-majority-is_1307754.jpg)
![“In fact, after having abolished the monarchy, the best of all governments, [the French Revolution] had transferred all the public power to the people - the people... ever easy to deceive and to lead into every excess” quote by Pope Pius VI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/945/pope-pius-vi-104319_deceiving_in-fact-after-having-abolished-the-monar_3201703.jpg)
