Meanwhile, urges toward liberty, fraternity, and equality were only growing in France, and it didn’t seem very equitable to grant citizenship based solely on race.
After a trial, so was the once revered king, ending 1,000 years of monarchy and launching the first French republic governed by the motto, " Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite."
I believe in the all-wise and all-loving God, named by whatever name; and that individual's highest fulfillment, greatest happiness and widest usefulness are to be found in living in harmony with his will.
The religious consciousness of our epoch is the aspiration toward happiness as realised by the fraternity of mankind. There is no true art but that which strives for this union.
His friends deserted to the Government, and he was left to uphold the doctrines of liberty, fraternity, and revolution in that perpetual minority which requires so much self-approval to support it.
He became a dictator and declared himself emperor in 1804. It would take many, many more years of war and political struggle before the republic's ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity were realized.