France Quote by George Will

The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.

— Edmund Burke

The greatest Inventions were produced in Times of Ignorance; as the Use of the Compass, Gunpowder, and Printing; and by the dullest Nation, as…

— Jonathan Swift

The French Revolution will be found to have had great influence on the strength of parties, and on the subsequent political transactions of the…

— John Marshall

The most lasting and universal consequence of the French revolution is the metric system

— Eric Hobsbawm

Important as economic unification is for the recovery of Germany and of Europe, the German people must recognize that the basic cause of their…

— James F. Byrnes

The French revolution was a .eune invented and constructed for the purpose of manufacturing liberty; but it had neither lever cogs, nor adjusting powers,…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“Our central thesis is that some inventions are more important than others, and that the revolutionary century after the Civil War was made possible…

— Robert J. Gordon

On the issue past of independence of Germany, after the time of National Socialism, Germany has been given an enormous amount of help particularly…

— Angela Merkel

A revolution in itself is not a blessing. The revolution accomplished by the French people is, indeed, a wonderful event - the most striking,…

— John C. Calhoun

World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.

— Barry Commoner

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 greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.

— Alfred North Whitehead