Destructive ambitions, borne by ambitious men, and cruel ironies haunt every revolution. The United States, the political entity created by a revolt dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal, permitted slavery until a bitter civil war (eight decades after the revolution) terminated that hideous, unequal practice.
French revolutionaries demanded liberty and equality, but 10 terror-ridden years after Parisians stormed the Bastille, the French...











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