Circumstances Quote by Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

Each State, in ratifying the Constitution, is considered as a sovereign body, independent of all others, and only to be bound by its own…

— James Madison

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

A government creates its own revolution. There can be no revolt without it.

— William Powell

This [the U.S. Constitution] is likely to be administered for a course of years and then end in despotism... when the people shall become…

— Benjamin Franklin

The aim of constitutional government is to preserve the Republic; that of revolutionary government is to lay its foundation.

— Maximilien Robespierre

A government on the principles on which constitutional governments arising out of society are established, cannot have the right of altering itself. If it…

— Thomas Paine

The most successful revolutions aren't those that are celebrated with parades and banners, drums and trumpets, cannons and fireworks. The really successful revolutions are…

— Joseph Sobran

Each country, if it so desires, will make its own revolution. And if no such desire exists, no revolution will occur.

— Joseph Stalin

The only foundation of a free Constitution, is pure Virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our People, in a great Measure, than…

— John Adams

“[On the eve of the French Revolution:] It is impossible to imagine a more disorderly Assembly. They neither reason, examine, nor discuss. They clap…

— Gouverneur Morris

The revolution is the war of liberty against its enemies. The constitution is the rule of liberty against its enemies. The constitution is the…

— Maximilien Robespierre

Nothing is plainer than that, if the principles of the church of Rome prevail here, our Constitution would fall. The two cannot exist together.…

— Richard Thompson