Louis Philippe Quotes

American blood will run in the streets.

[On Russia's civil disorder:] Comrade deputies, the most essential thing now is to overcome the crisis, to restore order in the country.

Agitated by revolutionary movements, these grow in proportion to the force that resists them.

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.

After the assassination of my wife, our nation was perilously close to civil strife. If I, as the co-chairman of the Party, had asked my people to take to the streets, the very existence of the federation would have been threatened.

I was watching TV and saw people with masks, weapons, and grenades. I thought, Is that really possible? Could we be here yet again? And go into civil war one more time?

Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

Unless something drastic is done very soon, then bloodshed and violence are going to happen…almost inevitably… A people made desperate by despair and injustice and oppression will use desperate means.

Peace. Now that he is dead, peace will return to my country.

Fire in the lake: The image of revolution.

It was a bad looking mob. It was animated by the essence of revolution.

Nothing endurable can be produced on a soil soaked with blood and moved by violent agitations.

The French colonialists must know that the Vietnamese people do not want bloodshed, that they love peace. But should they have to sacrifice millions of combatants, and fight for many years to defend the independence of their country and keep their children free, then they will do it. The resistance is sure to win.

No choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government; and so to resist force, employed for its destruction, by force, for its preservation.

As soon as external wars have ceased the internal commence

Still dreadful news from Paris. The Commune have everything their own way, and they go on quite as in the days of the old Revolution in the last century, though they have not yet proceeded to commit all the same horrors.

We have lived six centuries in six years. Let not this costly experience be lost on you. It is time to profit by the crimes of the monarchy, the errors of the Constituent Assembly, the vacillations and eccentricities of the Legislative Assembly, the misdeeds of the decemviral tyranny, the calamities of anarchy, and the misfortunes of civil war.

The so called “Arab Spring” … is really a situation which is creating more threats so far than positive incentives.

The commotions in Ireland were so sudden and so violent that it was hard at first either to discern the cause or apply a remedy to that precipitate rebellion.

We are not to hope that we shall end this controversy without the sharpest, sharpest conflicts. We are not to flatter ourselves, that popular resolves, popular harangues, popular acclamations, and popular vapor will vanquish our foes: let us consider, before we advance to those measures which must bring on the most trying and terrible struggle this country ever saw.

With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.

Revolutions are never peaceful.

I fear we may live to see another revolution.