Attainment Quote by 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

“[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

“If we had any leisure we would here digress a little on that ingratitude which so many writers have observed to spring up in…

— Henry Fielding

“It is only in our beautiful France that wholesale slaughter is done lawfully, in the name of liberty and of brotherly love”

— Emmuska Orczy

It must be admitted that the tendency of the human race toward liberty is largely thwarted, especially in France. This is greatly due to…

— Frederic Bastiat

“In countries of more advanced civilisation and of a more insurrectionary spirit, the public, accustomed to expect everything to be done for them by…

— John Stuart Mill

“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

“You are a monster of selfishness and greed, bearing no loyalty to anyone but yourself, and you prance across the stage and preen as…

— Lynn Messina

“...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

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

— David Andress

I rejoice that liberty . . . now finds an asylum in the bosom of a regularly organized government; a government, which, being formed…

— George Washington

We, the French, are viscerally attached to our laicite, our sovereignty, our independence, our values. The world knows that when France is attacked, it…

— Marine Le Pen