Revolutions never go backwards.
Great political questions stir the deepest nature of one-half the nation, but they pass far above and over the heads of the other half.
Aristocracy is always cruel.
Insurrection of thought always precedes the insurrection of arms.
There is nothing stronger than human prejudice.
There is nothing stronger than human prejudice. A crazy sentimentalism, like that of Peter the Hermit, hurled half of Europe upon Asia, and changed the destinies of kingdoms.