Revolution Quotes

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The bigger a state becomes the more liberty diminishes. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
In retrospect, all revolutions seem inevitable. Beforehand, all revolutions seem impossible. — Unknown Author
In less than a year Revolution has gone from being a concept to a reality, with three rapidly growing sector companies, overseeing a dozen acquired… — Steve Case
Only if you bring together the experience of the concrete struggles conducted by the real masses in the three sectors of the world (which are… — Ernest Mandel
He had a vision for changing our Medicare system, for bringing more people into the reality that our government should be a partner in preventing… — Andrew Card
Make no mistake; the American Revolution was not fought to obtain freedom, but to preserve the liberties that Americans already had as colonials. Independence was… — Samuel Eliot Morison
We built your fort. We will not have it used against us. — John Wayne
Revolution means democracy in today's world, not the enslavement of peoples to the corrupt and degrading horrors of totalitarianism — Ronald Reagan
If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be open to any… — Will Durant
A regime, an established order, is rarely overthrown by a revolutionary movement; usually a regime collapses of its own weakness and corruption and then a… — Walter Lippmann
Government is, or ought to be, instituted for the common benefit and security of the people, nation or community; whenever any government shall be found… — George Mason
There is no substitute for a militant freedom. — Calvin Coolidge
He who would be free must strike the first blow. — Frederick Douglass
Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin; the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by… — Michel de Montaigne
The art of revolutionizing and overturning states is to undermine established customs, by going back to their origin, in order to mark their want of… — Blaise Pascal
Wherever a man comes, there comes revolution. The old is for slaves. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Revolutions are not made: they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are… — Wendell Phillips
The French revolution was a .eune invented and constructed for the purpose of manufacturing liberty; but it had neither lever cogs, nor adjusting powers, and… — Charles Caleb Colton
Great revolutions, whatever may be their causes, are not lightly commenced, and are not concluded with precipitation. — Benjamin Disraeli
A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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