The French Revolution A Short History Quotes

“The nearer he is to the event the more authority he has as a witness, but the less authority as a judge.”
― Robert Matteson Johnston, The French Revolution A Short History

“His thesis was that the Church and the State were the great institutions whereby brute man had acquired his small share of justice and {7} reason, and that to hack at the root of both State and Church was fatal; it could only lead to the dictatorship of the soldier”
― Robert Matteson Johnston, The French Revolution A Short History