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“Now since France has three times in sixty years failed to obtain practical results from Political revolutions, all Europe is apt to press forward into new Social doctrine to regulate the future.”

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Book:Select Speeches of Kossuth

Source: Select Speeches of Kossuth

“In France everything is a matter for jest. People make quips about the scaffold, about Napoleon's defeat on the banks of The Beresina, and about the barricades of our revolutions. So, at the assizes of the Last Judgment, there will always be a Frenchmen to crack a joke.”

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Author:Honore de Balzac

“Human rights did not begin with the French Revolution...[they] really stem from a mixture of Judaism and Christianity...[we English] had 1688, our quiet revolution, where Parliament exerted its will over the King...it was not the sort of Revolution that France's was...'Liberty, equality, fraternity' - they forgot obligations and duties I think. And then of course the fraternity went missing for a long time.”

Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

“Old France, weighed down with history, prostrated by wars and revolutions, endlessly vacillating from greatness to decline, but revived, century after century, by the genius of renewal!”

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Book:War Memoirs: Salvation, 1944-1946. Translated from the French by R. Howard

Source: War Memoirs: Salvation, 1944-1946. Translated from the French by R. Howard

“In his youth, Wordsworth sympathized with the French Revolution, went to France, wrote good poetry and had a natural daughter. At this period, he was a bad man. Then he became good, abandoned his daughter, adopted correct principles and wrote bad poetry.”

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Book:Sceptical Essays

Source: Sceptical Essays

“France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion.”

Political Revolution France Revolutionary

Author:Alphonse de Lamartine

“The American Revolution was a small part of a major world war going on between France and England, so the French intervened and that was a big factor, but the domestic contribution was basically guerrilla warfare.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“In France you cannot not have lunch. If you stopped the French from having lunch, you will have a second revolution, I can tell you this. Not going to work - it is part of the French privilege.”

Ifs I Can Revolution Privilege France Working It Lunch Going To Work

Author:Christian Louboutin

“...the French Revolution gave rise to ideas which led beyond the ideas of the entire old world order. The revolutionary movement which began in 1789... gave rise to the communist idea which Babeuf's friend Buonarroti re-introduced in France after the Revolution of 1830. This idea, consistently developed, is the idea of the new world order.”

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Book:Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: 1844-45

Source: Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: 1844-45