"They do not understand that politics is a conflict of forces; they supposed it was a conflict of arguments. They mobilized rights, not supporters. The Jacobins had used the Rights of Man to inspire revolutionary armies; in the Habsburg Monarchy the national leaders thought that rights alone were enough, and accumulation of rights irresistible."
The Habsburg Monarchy, 1809 - 1918 by A. J. P. Taylor
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