Freedom Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte Download Open image “Variety made the Revolution. Liberty was just a pretext.” — Napoleon Bonaparte ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Freedom Liberty Made Pretext Revolution Variety
How could liberty ever establish itself amongst us? Apart from a few tragic scenes, the revolution has been nothing but a web of farcical… — Jean-Paul Marat Copy Share Image
The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution. — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
How did mankind ever come by the idea of liberty? What a grand thought it was! — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
“For the primary goal of the American Revolution which transferred American life and introduced a new era in human history, was not the overthrow… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
It appears first, that liberty is a natural, and government an adventitious right, because all men were originally free. — Thomas Clarkson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny — Georg Buchner Copy Share Image
“Liberty yes - but equality for all men? The end of all distinctions of social class? Such thinking smacked of anarchy, and of the… — Lynne Withey Copy Share Image
“They were now representatives of something much larger than themselves - a way of life, a shared set of values. Liberty was perhaps the… — Daniel James Brown Copy Share Image
The American Revolution represented the informed and mature convictions of a great mass of independent, liberty-loving, God-fearing people who knew their rights, and possessed… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The human beings at the helm of the new nation [USA], whatever their limitations [slave owners, anti-democracy], were truly revolutionary. The theory of liberty… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
All becomes easy when we follow the current of opinion; it is the ruler of the world. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall,… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
My decision to destroy the authority of the blacks in Saint Domingue (Haiti) is not so much based on considerations of commerce and money,… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
I believe in freedom to do what you want if you aren't hurting others, but pictures of obese protesters giving their children big gulps. — Philip DeFranco Copy Share Image
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
We live in the greatest country in the world because of the veterans who have sacrificed their lives for our freedom and the security… — Jon Husted Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
“No one was more surprised than I to realize that my newfound freedom had been purchased by giving up on eternity and settling for… — Carolyn Jessop Copy Share Image
“In a world of fixed future, there can be no right or wrong. Right and wrong demand freedom of choice, but if each action… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“In any case, white people, who had robbed black people of their liberty and who profited by this theft every hour that they lived, had no moral ground on which to stand. They had the judges, the juries, the shotguns, the law—in a word, power. But it was a criminal power, to be feared but not respected, and to be… — James Baldwin Copy Share
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share
“I have to blame myself for not finding any way of reaching him, but I can't feel that either Ruth or I had anything… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image