Break Quote by Abraham Lincoln

And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.

— Hu Shih

Revolutions can be messy but they can't be perceived as unjust.

— Varun Grover

When a people, having become free, establish wise laws, their revolution is complete... Peace and prosperity, public virtue, victory, everything is in the vigor…

— Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

The more revolutions occur, the less things change.

— Georgie Anne Geyer

How quickly revolutions grow old; and, worse still, respectable.

— Anonymous

A revolution is sometimes necessary, but if revolutions become habitual the country in which they take place is going down-hill

— Theodore Roosevelt

Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.

— Gloria Steinem

“Revolutions usually begin as replacements for older certainties, and not as pristine discoveries in uncharted terrain.”

— Stephen Jay Gould

Revolutions are not made: they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations…

— Wendell Phillips

When a people, having become free, establish wise laws, their revolution is complete.

— Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

To tell you the truth, I see any revolution as basically a penmanship exercise. It all loops around and winds up where you started.

— Ann Reinking

We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

— Eric Hoffer