Beheading Quote by Chris Anderson

“he beheld the grand figure of the people emerge from the Revolution, and the grand figure of France spring forth from the Empire. He…

— Victor Hugo

“To evoke another great phrase of the American revolutionary heritage — widely though inconclusively attributed to Thomas Jefferson — the price of liberty is…

— David Andress

“...What was the revolution for?" "Liberty. But people in France are tired of freedom. It's when people can vote that they realize how catastrophic…

— William Dietrich

“If these self-anointed leaders did not keep the people aroused with calls to preserve the Revolution, or to defend it from one imaginary foe…

— Robert Masello

“To the Jacobins of this epoch [the French Revolution], as well as to those of our times, this popular entity constitutes a superior personality…

— Gustave Le Bon

“In France, patriotism trumped partisanship.”

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

France, freed from that monster, Bonaparte, must again become the most agreeable country on earth. It would be the second choice of all whose…

— Thomas Jefferson

Do not let us despair of the cause of liberty: it is still dear to the hearts of Frenchmen, and we shall one day…

— Marquis de Lafayette

“Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; this is all we can expect…

— George Washington

“The general who does not advance to seek glory, or does not withdraw to avoid punishment, but cares for only the people's security and…

— Sun Tzu

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of…

— Benjamin Franklin

“So, we, at this day, when we thought we should have found favor among our own countrymen, for that we preached unto them the…

— Martin Luther