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Edmund Burke3 quotes
A state without some means of change is without the means of its own conservation. — Edmund Burke · 1790Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions. — Edmund Burke · 1790It 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 · 1790Alexis de Tocqueville1 quote
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 · 1856Charles James Fox1 quote
How much the greatest event it is that ever happened in the world! and how much the best! — Charles James Fox · 1789G.M. Trevelyan1 quote
If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt. — G.M. Trevelyan · 1942Heinrich Heine1 quote
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 · 1834Maximilien Robespierre1 quote
Citizens, would you want a revolution without revolution? — Maximilien Robespierre · 1792