The French Revolution will be found to have had great influence on the strength of parties, and on the subsequent political transactions of the United States.

The French Revolution actualised the Enlightenment's greatest intellectual breakthrough: detaching the political from the theocratic.

Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!

Ninety-three" was the war of Europe against France, and of France against Paris. And what was the Revolution? It was the victory of France over Europe, and of Paris over France. Hence the immensity of that terrible moment?, '93, greater than all the rest of the century

The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past.

The French revolution taught us the rights of man.