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Religious literature · Philosophical literature

Maximilien Robespierre was nothing but the hand of Jean Jacques Rousseau, the bloody hand that drew from the womb of time the body whose soul Rousseau had created.

Heinrich Heine

1834

★ 1.0

Historical literature

If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.

G.M. Trevelyan

1942

★ 1.8

Historical literature · Political literature

The French Revolution operated in reference to this world in exactly the same manner as religious revolutions acted in view of the other world. It considered the citizen as an abstract proposition apart from any particular society, in the same way as religions considered man as man, independent of country and time.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The Ancien Regime and the Revolution · 1856

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

Citizens, would you want a revolution without revolution?

Maximilien Robespierre

1792

★ 2.0

Letter

How much the greatest event it is that ever happened in the world! and how much the best!

Charles James Fox

1789

★ 3.5

Political literature

It is said, that twenty-four millions ought to prevail over two hundred thousand. True, if the constitution of a kingdom be a problem of arithmetic.

Edmund Burke

Reflections on the Revolution in France · 1790

★ 3.7

Political literature

Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.

Edmund Burke

Reflections on the Revolution in France · 1790

★ 7.0

Political literature

A state without some means of change is without the means of its own conservation.

Edmund Burke

Reflections on the Revolution in France · 1790

★ 7.0

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