What elements of the French Revolution enthralled Romantics? What means are justified in order to create a "better" society?
"A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine." Thomas Jefferson
"One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship." George Orwell
"When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the "freedom of the press" goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism." Vladimir Lenin
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." John F. Kennedy
"A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets." Napoleon Bonaparte
"Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and force a new one that suits them better." Abraham Lincoln
Responses due Wednesday 12/6