The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.

The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.

A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature.

A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature.

Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality.

Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality.

I deserve respect for the things I did not do.

I deserve respect for the things I did not do.

The power of a movement lies in the fact that it can indeed change the habits of people. This change read more

The power of a movement lies in the fact that it can indeed change the habits of people. This change is not the result of force but of dedication, of moral persuasion.

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

Many bad policies are simply good policies taken too far.

Many bad policies are simply good policies taken too far.

Discontent is likely to be highest when misery is bearable; when conditions have so improved that an ideal state seems read more

Discontent is likely to be highest when misery is bearable; when conditions have so improved that an ideal state seems almost within reach. A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed. De Tocqueville in his researches into the state of society in France before the revolution was struck by the discovery that "in no one of the periods which have followed the Revolution of 1789 has the national prosperity of France augmented more rapidly than it did in the twenty years preceding that event." He is forced to conclude that "the French found their position the more intolerable the better it became.