If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.

G.M. Trevelyan

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Topic

French Revolution Causes of revolution Revolution Elites Counterfactual history

Author

G.M. Trevelyan

Source

English Social History

Genre

Historical literature

Language

English

Time

1942 1940s 20th century

Occupation

Historian Academic Writer

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United Kingdom Europe

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Citation

Trevelyan, George Macaulay. English Social History: A Survey of Six Centuries Chaucer to Queen Victoria. Longmans, Green and Company, 1942, ch. 8.

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Political language—and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists—is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

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Genre
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Language
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Time
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Orwell, George. "Politics and the English Language." Horizon, Apr. 1946, vol. 13, issue 76, pp. 252-265.

Current Citation

Orwell, George. "Politics and the English Language." The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, vol. 4: In Front of Your Nose 1945-1950, edited by Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus. David R. Godine, 1999, no. 38.

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Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.

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Consciencism
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Language
English
Time
1964 1960s 20th century
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Citation

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Another quote from 1942

This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

Winston Churchill

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World War II
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Winston Churchill
Medium
Speech
Genre
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Language
English
Time
1942 1940s 20th century
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Churchill, Winston. Speech at the Mansion House. Lord Mayor's Luncheon. 10 Nov. 1942, Mansion House, London, England, UK.

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Churchill, Winston. "The bright gleam of victory', 10 November 1942, Mansion House, London." Never Give In! The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches. Hyperion, 2005.