French revolution Quote by Henry James

“Above all, there was a belief in the revolution and the future, a feeling of having suddenly emerged into an era of equality and…

— George Orwell

“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

“Perhaps no two events ever united so intimately and forceably to combat and expel prejudice, as the Revolution of America, and the Alliance with…

— Thomas Paine

“If there is any period one would desire to be born in, ⎯ is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.”

— Fidel Castro

“Sometimes he felt as if he'd been born in the wrong century. The people of this time were all wrong for him, and he…

— Heather Massey

“Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under…

— Karl Marx

“He spoke that refined French in which our grandparents not only spoke bit thought...”

— Leo Tolstoy

“He was one of those who are driven early in life into too conservative an attitude by the bewildering folly of most revolutionists.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“A new generation forgets the specters that may have tormented the old… And yet, always, to all eternity, it is the same specter assailing…

— Halldór Laxness

“Events had been set in motion whose echo would be heard a thousand and more generations from now.”

— J. Valor

“Since history is not an objective reality, but only an imaginative reconstruction of vanished events, the pattern that appears useful and agreeable to one…

— Carl Lotus Becker