Marie-Jeanne Roland citáty
1 0
Marie-Jeanne Roland
Datum narození: 17. březen 1754
Datum úmrtí: 8. listopad 1793
Další jména: Madame Roland
Madame Roland byla sympatizantkou francouzské revoluce.
Citáty Marie-Jeanne Roland
„O Liberty, how many crimes are committed in thy name!“
— Marie-Jeanne Roland de la Platière
On being led to her execution, sometimes stated to have been directed at a specific statue of Liberty, in Memoirs, Appendix; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), and in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922); used by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Essay on Mirabeau.
Variants:
O liberté, comme on t'a jouée!
O Liberty, how thou hast been played with!
As quoted in Letters Containing a Sketch of the Politics of France (1795) by Helen Maria Williams, Vol. 1, p. 201 http://books.google.de/books?id=FTkuAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA201
