Re: More Important to Modern Western Liberalism:1776, 1789, 1848
To just look at France or Europe in this context is where you fail.Originally Posted by A Terribly Harmful Name
1789 was important for the entire world. Nearly every other constitution on Earth is based on the French one and borrows heavily from French ideals
There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.
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