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No one, I hope, can doubt my wish to see... all mankind exercising self-government, and capable of exercising it. But the question is not what… — Thomas Jefferson
I think it impossible that the great monarchies of Europe can last much longer. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I had been brought up in a church which decides everything and permits no doubts, so that having rejected one article of faith I was… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I shall easily show that it is impossible to tax further, ruinous to be always borrowing and not enough to confine ourselves to measures of… — Unknown Author
The King did not summon the Estates because he needed them, but out of his own pleasure. — Jacques Necker
It is the height of stupidity to claim that men who for a thousand years have had the power to berate us, to fleece us… — Jean-Paul Marat
What is this much repeated phrase 'active citizen' supposed to mean? The active citizens are the ones who took the Bastille. — Camille Desmoulins
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
When one meddles with the direction of a revolution, the problem is not how to make it go but how to keep it under control. — Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau
I trust we shall never be reduced to the painful extremity of seeking the aid of Mirabeau. — Marie Antoinette
Jacobins, I have a truth to tell you. You do not know your most deadly enemies; they are the constitutional priests. It is they who… — Jean-Paul Marat
Louis XVI started to die on June 21st 1791. For his flight tore away the veil of that false constitutional monarchy, and once more confronted… — Unknown Author
[We need] someone bold, to put himself at the head of the disaffected and rally them against the oppressor. Some great character who could captivate… — Jean-Paul Marat
Here, the revolution was prepared. Here it was achieved. Here all the great events were fostered. — Unknown Author
We must institute a coup d'etat, a third revolution, which must beat down anarchy. Dissolve the Paris Commune and destroy its sections! Dissolve the clubs,… — Jacques Pierre Brissot
The ministers and the Jacobins are making the king declare war tomorrow on Austria. The ministers are hoping that this move will frighten the Austrians… — Marie Antoinette
When a people, having become free, establish wise laws, their revolution is complete... Peace and prosperity, public virtue, victory, everything is in the vigor of… — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
The disorganisers are those who want to level everything: property, comforts, the price of commodities, the various services rendered to the State... who want the… — Jacques Pierre Brissot
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

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