““Commoners already paid the lion’s share of national taxes and, because of these old feudal records, they now also paid a whole host of other duties to their local nobles (who, further inspiring anger, were exempt from most national taxes). Like the American Revolution before it, the French Revolution began as a tax revolt, and there were even rumors that King Louis XVI himself authorized the burning sprees because he felt the taxes on his people were unjustly high.””
![“In fact, after having abolished the monarchy, the best of all governments, [the French Revolution] had transferred all the public power to the people - the people... ever easy to deceive and to lead into every excess” quote by Pope Pius VI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/945/pope-pius-vi-104319_deceiving_in-fact-after-having-abolished-the-monar_3201703.jpg)
![“In 1786, Jefferson pitched a secular and public system of education for Virginia. He reasoned that “the tax which will be paid for this purpose is not more that the thousandth part of what will be paid to [the] kings, priests, and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance.” quote by Alan Taylor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/37a/alan-taylor-19383_education_in-1786-jefferson-pitched-a-secular-and_1221701.jpg)
