HENRI DE SAINT-SIMON

The Revolution in America signaled the beginning of a new political era, that this revolution would necessarily determine an important progress in world civilization and that before long, it would cause great changes in the social order which then existed in Europe.

The Dutch patriots and revolutionaries are not vagabonds, libertines, rogues who are armed and led on to pillage. Rather, they are magistrates of the towns in opposition to other magistrates … peaceful bourgeois, honest merchants, wealthy manufacturers and some of the best soldiers … the richest among them supporting the poorest.

The Revolution in America signaled the beginning of a new political era, that this revolution would necessarily determine an important progress in world civilization and that before long, it would cause great changes in the social order which then existed in Europe.

The Dutch patriots and revolutionaries are not vagabonds, libertines, rogues who are armed and led on to pillage. Rather, they are magistrates of the towns in opposition to other magistrates … peaceful bourgeois, honest merchants, wealthy manufacturers and some of the best soldiers … the richest among them supporting the poorest.