Madame Roland
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Marie-Jeanne Roland de la Platière (March 17, 1754 – November 8, 1793), born Marie-Jeanne Phlipon and better known simply as Madame Roland, was, together with her husband Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière, a supporter of the French Revolution and influential member of the Girondist faction. She fell out of favor during the Reign of Terror and died on the guillotine.
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- O Liberté, que de crimes on commet en ton nom!
- O Liberty, how many crimes are committed in thy name!
- 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. The actual expression used is said to have been "O liberté, comme on t'a jouée!"—"O Liberty, how thou hast been played with!" Spoken as she stood before a statue of Liberty.
- O Liberty, how many crimes are committed in thy name!
