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Letter "F" » French Revolution
«I've never made the trip to or from Connecticut without its resembling the worst excesses of the French Revolution.»
Author: Pat Buckley
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«Positively, my social philosophy may be said to be enshrined in three words: liberty, equality and fraternity. Let no one however say that I have borrowed my philosophy from the French Revolution. I have not. My philosophy has its roots in religion and not in political science. I have derived them from the teachings of my master, the Buddha.»
Author: B. R. Ambedkar
(Politician)
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«The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
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«We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory»
Author: Vladimir Lenin
| Keywords:
French Revolution, reinvigorated, reinvigorates, The French Revolution
«It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired the crusades; that instituted the monastic orders; it was not reason that produced the Jesuits; above all, it was not reason that created the French Revolution. Man is only great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
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«Vanity made the [French] Revolution; liberty was only a pretext.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
| Keywords:
French, French Revolution, pretext, pretexts, the French, The French Revolution, vanity
«The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development. The error of Louis XIV was that he thought human nature would always be the same. The result of his error was the French Revolution. It was an admirable result.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
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