D Quotes
or
"Ya Gotta Quote it!"
"To God or not to God"-Bob S.
"Gravity Corrupts."-Erik S.
"Revolutions devour their own." D.
"At what point did the French revolution become a rational exercise in
expressing political ideas to the motorcycle at the bottom of the pool?"-D.
"Ya gotta know it."-D
"There's a leadership crisis."
"In that Louis isn't one."-D. and Bob S.
"Imagine an operation at that time in...that...part of your body."
"Lots of Bourbon."-D. and Rob M.
"Too much liberty becomes power and unfettered power is dangerous."-D.
"Equality is bad."-D.
"Who's land is it."-D
"We're bringing the baker the baker's son and the baker's wife back to Paris."
-D. (paraphrasing the bread riots.)
"Hess is a unitarian? No he isn't. Hess is a pagan."-D.
"Is the motorcycle at the bottom of the pool? On the diving board?"
"It's the Aristocracy's motorcycle."-D. and Bob S.
"The motorcycle is bouncing on the diving board now."-Ben D.
" 'You gonna elect my priest' And then she'd hit you."-D.
(re: his grandmother and the civil constitution of the clergy)
"When France sneezes Europe catches cold."-D.
"Come on, you want to attack France."-D. (emigre Aristocracy)
"Makes for interesting dinner conversation."-D. (Jacobins and everyone else)
"Now the motorycle is doing wheelies on the diving board. Monday it falls."-D.
"She was very unhappy."
"With a name like that she should be."-D. and Rob
"Peasants into Frenchmen."-D.
"Pagans in togas, that's good."-Erik S.
"What would be your most popular form of propaganda?"
"Guillotines."-D. and Rob
"The motorcycle is in the pool."
"I think at this point everyone is too drunk to notice."-D. and Bob S.
"Between 89-92 the motorcycle wasn't in the pool, by '93 it was."-D.
"The last usage of a Guillotine was 1977."
"There must be video footage!"-D. and Erik S."
"Oh, I forgot, sorry."
"Good question, though."
"Yes, that was one of your better ones."-Evan, Rob and Liz
"He learned nothing. He forgot nothing."-D.
"Napoleon came to power in a whiff of Grapeshot"-D.
"The knife is in the back of the Revolution now."-D.
"Yeah, Napoleon...let's get Napoleon."-D.
"The little German princes are killing him."-D.
"He didn't like to speak unless he was the smartest man in the room."-D.
"What does a revolution offer a young military officer?"
"Lot's of dead older military officers?"-D. and Rob M.
"At what point does he sell the revolution out?"-D.
"He's fixin' the motorcycle and cleaning the house."-Tracy W.
"Now he's lookin' out the corner of his eye."-Bob S.
"Mid-life crisis."
"Think...I used to own Europe."-Erik S. and Rob M.
"You know Australia was a penal colony"
"No pun intended."-D. and Dan T.
"Do you agree..."-D.
"We know who they are because they kill people."-D.
"They achieved peacefully in one century what the rest of the Europe
tried in 1848."-D.
"Robbespierre is good stuff."(Jacobins)
"These are people who are crazy."(Bonapartists)
"More royalist than the king."(Ultras)
"What do you DO in a country like this?"-D.
"You slugs!"-D.
"The man does a great job of setting up his next shot."-D.
"Hot peasants."-Bob S.
"Imperialism: Any foreign Policy you don't like."-Mike Huff
"It means all things to all people."-D.
"How many toasters can you have?"
"Depends on how much room you have to put them in."-D. and Liz E.
"Conquer the world or improve some peasant's life? That's no choice."-Rob M.
"Let's talk in generality about Russia."
"There's this place called Russia."-D. and Evan M.
"Evan's a Narodnik!"-Ben D.
"The Brookings Institution, which is just a little to the right...
of Atilla the Hun."-D."
"Stab them with their pitchfork."
"I got a radical! I got a radical!"-Liz E. and Evan M.
"Nicholas is not a really bright man."-D.
"Where in the Bible does it say that the Bible is always right?"
"In Revelation, he says 'This is my book, it's the truth, don't
fuck with it.'"-Evan M. and Erik S.
"I think that the U.S. should charge the national debt to American Express.
Let them deal with it."-Rob M.
"I'm from Newark, what can you possibly do to my car?"
"It's not what we'll do to your car. It's what we'll do to your
credit rating."-D. and Ben D.
-Compiled by Liz and Evan in honor of
Mr. Anthony DiBattista's fourth period
AP European History class, 1992-93.