Revolution Quotes

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There are but three ways for the populace to escape its wretched lot. The first two are by the routes of the wine-shop or the… — Mikhail Bakunin
Revolutions are not made with rosewater. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Revolutions can no longer be achieved by minorities. No matter how energetic and intelligent a minority may be, it is not enough, in modern times… — Jean Jaures
One of the chief symptoms of every revolution is the sharp and sudden increase in the number of ordinary people who take an active, independent… — Vladimir Lenin
We must enter and take possession of the consciences of the children, of the consciences of the young, because they do belong, and should belong… — Unknown Author
He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience. We have always protected the Americans; we may therefore subject them to government. — Samuel Johnson
If there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged. — Thomas Paine
The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution. — William E. Gladstone
My call is the call of battle- I nourish active rebellion;/ He going with me must go well armed. — Walt Whitman
Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices. — George Bernard Shaw
Tyranny brings ignorance and brutality with it. It degrades men from their just rank into the class of brutes; it damps their spirits; it suppresses… — Jonathan Mayhew
No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it. — Samuel Johnson
It is lawful and hath been held so through all ages for any one who have the power to call to account a tyrant or… — John Milton
In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every private employer a dictator, every… — George Bernard Shaw
Despotism has forever had a powerful hold upon the world. Autocratic government, not self-government, has been the prevailing state of mankind. The record of past… — Calvin Coolidge
It violates right order whenever capital so employs the working or wage-earning classes as to divert business and economic activity entirely to its own arbitrary… — Pope Pius XI
The foundation on which (our government is) built is the natural equality of man, the denial of every pre-eminence but that annexed to legal office,… — Thomas Jefferson
That these are our grievances which we have thus laid before his majesty, with that freedom of language and sentiment which becomes a free people… — Thomas Jefferson
Should [reformers] attempt more than the established habits of the people are ripe for, they may lose all and retard indefinitely the ultimate object of… — Thomas Jefferson
To be really useful, we must keep pace with the state of society, and not dishearten it by attempts at what its population, means, or… — Thomas Jefferson

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