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estellacat suggested that we have a monthly quote challenge, either posting one and having people guess the author, or posting several and having people match them up. So...that's what we're going to do!
The first challenge, tying into our monthly discussion point, involves quotes by members of the Committee of Public Safety. You will notice that there are only nine quotes, meaning that there are three members whose names you will not use. But telling you who they are would be far too easy, so you'll just have to discern for yourself!
You will have until March 27th to respond to this post with your guesses. Comments will be screened until that time. The winner will be the first to get the greatest number of answers correct and will also be in charge of the quote challenge for next month (and I'll run the monthly discussion point by that person first just to be sure they don't have any concerns about the feasibility of finding quotes related to it).
The only real rule, and this is a BIG rule, is no Googling. Googling would...well, it would make the whole thing fairly pointless. You are, however, able to scour any printed sources at your disposal for the quotes, as it involves a much larger amount of blood, sweat, and tears than just copying and pasting every quote into Google. :P
QUOTES
1. "Citizens, the inflexible austerity of Lycurgus created the firm foundation of the Spartan republic. The weak and trusting character of Solon plunged Athens into slavery. This parallel embraces the whole science of government."
2. "Is his grave not wide enough for us to empty into it all of our hatreds?"
3. “The revolution! An unutterable word. Who can claim to understand clearly and precisely that set of events, alternatively glorious and deplorable, some of them the fruit of genius and daring, or again, of the most respectable integrity, and others born of the most perverse iniquity.”
4. "What is the aim we want to achieve? The peaceful enjoyment of liberty and equality; the reign of that eternal justice whose laws are engraved not in stone and marble, but in the hearts of all men, even in that of the slave who forgets them, and of the tyrant who disowns them."
5. “Would that I might die seeing my country free and its people happy.”
6. “Everywhere in short is the triumph of Pitt’s despotism and of gold. Very well, we will make a triumph of courage and of iron.”
7. "Dare - this word contains all the politics of our revolution."
8. “By killing all these scoundrels, we guarantee the life of many generations of free men.”
9. "The General Order is always to maneuver in a body and on the attack; to maintain strict but not pettifogging discipline; to keep the troops constantly at the ready; to employ the utmost vigilance on sentry go; to use the bayonet on every possible occasion; and to follow up the enemy remorselessly until he is utterly destroyed."
POSSIBLE ANSWERS
Maximilien Robespierre
Louis Antoine Saint-Just
Georges Couthon
Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois
Jacques Nicolas Billaud-Varenne
Lazare Carnot
Robert Lindet
Bertrand Barère
Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles
Claude-Antoine Prieur-Duvernois
Pierre-Louis Prieur
Jeanbon Saint-André
A while back,
estellacat suggested that we have a monthly quote challenge, either posting one and having people guess the author, or posting several and having people match them up. So...that's what we're going to do!The first challenge, tying into our monthly discussion point, involves quotes by members of the Committee of Public Safety. You will notice that there are only nine quotes, meaning that there are three members whose names you will not use. But telling you who they are would be far too easy, so you'll just have to discern for yourself!
You will have until March 27th to respond to this post with your guesses. Comments will be screened until that time. The winner will be the first to get the greatest number of answers correct and will also be in charge of the quote challenge for next month (and I'll run the monthly discussion point by that person first just to be sure they don't have any concerns about the feasibility of finding quotes related to it).
The only real rule, and this is a BIG rule, is no Googling. Googling would...well, it would make the whole thing fairly pointless. You are, however, able to scour any printed sources at your disposal for the quotes, as it involves a much larger amount of blood, sweat, and tears than just copying and pasting every quote into Google. :P
QUOTES
1. "Citizens, the inflexible austerity of Lycurgus created the firm foundation of the Spartan republic. The weak and trusting character of Solon plunged Athens into slavery. This parallel embraces the whole science of government."
2. "Is his grave not wide enough for us to empty into it all of our hatreds?"
3. “The revolution! An unutterable word. Who can claim to understand clearly and precisely that set of events, alternatively glorious and deplorable, some of them the fruit of genius and daring, or again, of the most respectable integrity, and others born of the most perverse iniquity.”
4. "What is the aim we want to achieve? The peaceful enjoyment of liberty and equality; the reign of that eternal justice whose laws are engraved not in stone and marble, but in the hearts of all men, even in that of the slave who forgets them, and of the tyrant who disowns them."
5. “Would that I might die seeing my country free and its people happy.”
6. “Everywhere in short is the triumph of Pitt’s despotism and of gold. Very well, we will make a triumph of courage and of iron.”
7. "Dare - this word contains all the politics of our revolution."
8. “By killing all these scoundrels, we guarantee the life of many generations of free men.”
9. "The General Order is always to maneuver in a body and on the attack; to maintain strict but not pettifogging discipline; to keep the troops constantly at the ready; to employ the utmost vigilance on sentry go; to use the bayonet on every possible occasion; and to follow up the enemy remorselessly until he is utterly destroyed."
POSSIBLE ANSWERS
Maximilien Robespierre
Louis Antoine Saint-Just
Georges Couthon
Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois
Jacques Nicolas Billaud-Varenne
Lazare Carnot
Robert Lindet
Bertrand Barère
Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles
Claude-Antoine Prieur-Duvernois
Pierre-Louis Prieur
Jeanbon Saint-André
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