Best French Revolution Quotes

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One must never compromise with tyrants. One can only strike at kings through the head. Nothing can be expected from European kings except by force… — Georges Danton
Monarchy is an outrage which even the blind of an entire people cannot justify... all men hold from nature the secret mission to destroy wherever… — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
One wonders why there are so many women who follow Robespierre to his home, to the Jacobins, to the Cordeliers and to the Convention. It… — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
From 1789, perhaps even before that, it had been the willingness of politicians to exploit either the threat or the fact of violence that had… — Simon Schama
Nothing will make me change my principles. Even with the knife at my neck I shall still declare, up to this day, the poor have… — Jean-Paul Marat
How could liberty ever establish itself amongst us? Apart from a few tragic scenes, the revolution has been nothing but a web of farcical scenes. — Jean-Paul Marat
In a few days, I will have them all guillotined in Paris. — Jean-Paul Marat
The revolution is the war of liberty against its enemies. The constitution is the rule of liberty against its enemies. The constitution is the rule… — Maximilien Robespierre
Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible. It is then an emanation of virtue. — Maximilien Robespierre
I have left my balls to Robespierre and my legs to Couthon. That should help the Committee of Public Safety for a while. — Georges Danton
You [Robespierre] will follow us soon. Your house will be beaten down and salt sown in the place where it stood. — Georges Danton
I shall die in the belief that to make France free, republican and prosperous, a little ink would have sufficed - and only one guillotine. — Camille Desmoulins
The blood of criminals fertilises the soil of liberty. — Joseph Fouche
There is a noticeable general difference between the sciences and mathematics on the one hand, and the humanities and social sciences on the other. It's… — Noam Chomsky
We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory. — Vladimir Lenin
The most lasting and universal consequence of the French revolution is the metric system — Eric Hobsbawm
The Messianic era is the present age, which began to germinate with the teachings of Spinoza, and finally came into historical existence with the great… — Moses Hess
Tea, late dinners and the French Revolution. I cannot exactly see the connection of ideas. — Thomas Love Peacock
Anyone who studies the state of things which preceded the French Revolution will see that the tremendous catastrophe came about from so excessive a regulation… — Herbert Spencer
For the average person, all problems date to World War II; for the more informed, to World War I; for the genuine historian, to the… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
The French Revolution was nothing but a precursor of another revolution, one that will be bigger, more solemn, and which will be the last. — Francois-Noel Babeuf
The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution… — C L R James
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 after the civil… — Edvard Munch
The Allies had made war on Napoleon as a tyrant and an oppressor of nations; yet once they had got him out of the way,… — J. Christopher Herold
I'm a let you finish, but the French Revolution had the best severed heads of ALL TIME. — Kanye West

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