"You can lock the door upon them, but they burst open their shaky lattices and call out over the house-tops so that me…"

"Louis XVI, after confessing that despotism was useless, even to make men happy by compulsion, appealed to the nation …"

"It was the French and not the American Revolution that set the world on fire, and it was consequently from the course…"

"[T]wo parties diametrically opposed by their system and their plan for the public administration... I am ready to bel…"

"The grandeur of the Revolution in the eyes of those who had witnessed it, or had received its tradition from actors i…"

"Since the great French Revolution all colour has been gradually dying out of the male costume, until we have got redu…"

"The French had shown themselves the ablest architects of ruin that had hitherto existed in the world. In that very sh…"

"What was done in France was a wild attempt to methodize anarchy; to perpetuate and fix disorder. That it was a foul, …"

"France wanted to make proselytes to her opinions, and turn every government in the world into a republic. If every go…"

"The essential result of the French revolution was to establish the doctrine of popular sovereignty as the foundation …"