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1 " Asked what he thought was the significance of the French Revolution, the Chinese Premier Zhou En-lai is reported to have answered, “It’s too soon to tell. "
― Simon Schama , Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution
2 " a young student had written to his father, justifying his decision to volunteer by declaring that “our liberty can only be assured if it will have for its bed a mattress of cadavers… I consent to become one of those cadavers. "
3 " . . .for the designated successor to royal authority, the Sovereign People, was no more capable than Louis XVI of reconciling freedom with power. "
