Overthrow Quotes

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I am struggling to maintain the government, not to overthrow it. I am struggling especially to prevent others from overthrowing it. — Abraham Lincoln
It is said that brother Joseph in his lifetime declared that the Elders of this Church should step forth at a particular time when the… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
The religion of Jesus Christ aims at nothing less than the utter overthrow of all other systems of religion in the world; denouncing them as… — Simon Greenleaf
Allow a government to decline paying its debts and you overthrow all public morality-you unhinge all the principles that preserve the limits of free constitutions.… — Alexander Hamilton
After September 11, when the United States took action to overthrow the Taliban, our interests and Iran's aligned, and we were able to coordinate quietly… — Earl Blumenauer
The central event of the twentieth century is the overthrow of matter. ...The powers of the mind are everywhere ascendant over the brute force of… — George Gilder
[The overthrow of the Castro regime] is the top priority of the US government. - all else is secondary - no time, no effort, or… — Robert Kennedy
Have a good physical outlet of some sport or exercise. Overcome evil with good. You can overcome many evil inclinations through good physical exertion and… — Ezra Taft Benson
An American-led overthrow of Saddam Hussein - and the replacement of the radical Baathist dictatorship with a new government more closely aligned with the United… — David Frum
The end of the world: the wholesale internal introversion upon itself of the noosphere, which has simultaneously reached the uttermost limit of its complexity and… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
It is up to us to organize the people. As for the reactionaries in China, it is up to us to organize the people to… — Mao Zedong
The revolution begins at home. If you overthrow yourself again and again, you might earn the right to help overthrow the rest of us. — Rob Brezsny
Characteristically, however, the overthrow of the dictator simply means that there will be another dictator. ... the policies they follow will probably not be radically… — Gordon Tullock
Revolutions and revolutionary wars are inevitable in class society, and without them it is impossible to accomplish any leap in social development and to overthrow… — Mao Zedong
Scores of Iraqi exiles met in London to discuss ways to overthrow Saddam Hussein in a grand gathering dubbed the 'Iraqi Military Alliance Meeting.' Of… — Jon Stewart
We need to change the system. We need to overthrow, not the government, as the authorities are always accusing the Communists 'of conspiring to teach… — Dorothy Day
The Latin American cause is about all a social cause: the rebirth of Latin America must start with the overthrow of its masters, country by… — Eduardo Galeano
Hollywood's martyr-mythology leaves out the fact that the famed Hollywood Ten, for example, were in fact members of the Communist Party, which advocated the violent… — Jonah Goldberg
His [Pitt's] successor as prime minister was Mr. Addington, who was a friend of Mr. Pitt, just as Mr. Pitt was a friend of Mr.… — J. Christopher Herold
Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not. — Frances Wright

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