
“We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us.”
Act II.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
Fragment 3 (1794). [Source: Saint-Just, Fragments sur les institutions républicaines]
“We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us.”
Act II.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 19, The Successful Politician Does Not Drink
Original: (fr) Notre révolution m'a fait sentir tout le sens de l'axiome qui dit que l'histoire est un roman ; et je suis convaincu que la fortune et l'intrigue ont fait plus de héros, que le génie et la vertu.
Source: Lettres à ses commettants, 1ère série, n°10 http://www.royet.org/nea1789-1794/archives/journaux/lettres_commettants/robespierre_lettres_commettants_1_10.htm, (21 December 1792)
Principles to Form the Basis of the Administration of the Republic (February 1794)
Marginalia http://www.easylit.com/poe/comtext/prose/margin.shtml (November 1844)
Speech before the Massachusetts Antislavery Society (28 January 1852), published in Speeches, Letters and Lectures by Wendell Phillips https://archive.org/details/speecheslectures7056phil (1884), p. 36<!-- Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York: C. T. Dillingham -->
1850s
Source: Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice (2006), p. 265-266