Ann-coulter Quote by Ann Coulter

“[On the eve of the French Revolution:] It is impossible to imagine a more disorderly Assembly. They neither reason, examine, nor discuss. They clap…

— Gouverneur Morris

Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his…

— Mike Tyson

“It has been said that the French revolution resulted from philosophy, and it is not without reason that philosophy has been called Weltweisheit [world…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“The revolutionaries failed to institute the novel forms of social and political organization they hankered after; Workers would not accept a ten-day week, or…

— Alan Ryan

“In other words, ideas, when implemented, turn into precedents with unpredictable and potentially disturbing consequences. As the British historian and politician Lord Acton described…

— Sarah Vowell

“The idea of the “people,” as the fount of legitimate order ... has been of some service to the left-liberal intellectual in our time,…

— Roger Scruton

True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to…

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

The human beings at the helm of the new nation [USA], whatever their limitations [slave owners, anti-democracy], were truly revolutionary. The theory of liberty…

— Naomi Wolf

“If these self-anointed leaders did not keep the people aroused with calls to preserve the Revolution, or to defend it from one imaginary foe…

— Robert Masello

We respect revolutionaries, not because they always do the right things but because of their power to destroy and courage to rebuild.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Revolutionaries must proclaim their ideas courageously ... and express their intentions so that no one is deceived.

— Fidel Castro

“In this book the reader will find, I hope, an antidote for historical amnesia. To this day, the public remembers the Revolution mostly in…

— Gary B. Nash