Revolution Quotes

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It would be a foetus of monarchy! — Edmund Randolph
Away with your president! We shall have a king... the army will salute him as monarch; your militia will leave you and assist in making… — Patrick Henry
On the subject of the history of the American Revolution, you ask who shall write it? Who can write it? And who will ever be… — Thomas Jefferson
All men are created equal and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. — Thomas Jefferson
The rebels did more in one night than my whole army would have done in one month. — Unknown Author
Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reform. The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet… — Frederick Douglass
Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organized aggressive mass action. — A. Philip Randolph
Victory or defeat? It is the slogan of all-powerful militarism in every belligerent nation. And yet, what can victory bring to the proletariat? — Rosa Parks
This is a gift that I have, simple, simple; a foolish extravagant spirit full of forms, figures, shapes, objects, ideas, apprehensions, motions, revolutions; these are… — William Shakespeare
Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it. — Simone de Beauvoir
We need to embark on a human revolution. A revolution where our reality is not replaced by drones but augmented by technology to do better. — Unknown Author
My belief has always been... that wherever in this land any individual's constitutional rights are being unjustly denied, it is the obligation of the federal… — Ronald Reagan
The Civil War created in this country what had never existed before - a national consciousness. It was not the salvation of the Union; it… — Woodrow Wilson
If the States do not have the right to secede, then they have no rights at all. — Walter E. Williams
To those who had ordered them to death one of them said: 'We die because the people are asleep... you will die because the people… — Carl Sandburg
If Abu Nidal is a terrorist, then so is George Washington. — Muammar al-Gaddafi
The man who carried out the attack is still in power and still insane, so we shall expect another attack any minute. — Muammar al-Gaddafi
If there ever are great revolutions there, they will be caused by the presence of the blacks upon American soil. — Alexis de Tocqueville
We have reached the time when it is morally right to "shoot the bastards", but it is not yet practical to do so. — Vin Suprynowicz
Those few days after Kent State were among the darkest of my presidency. — Richard M. Nixon
It's embarrassing ... you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller's List. — Abbie Hoffman
Anger or revolt that does not get into the muscles remains a figment of the imagination. — Simone de Beauvoir
New directions in science are launched by new tools much more often than by new concepts. The effect of a concept-driven revolution is to explain… — Freeman Dyson
Transformation can only take place immediately; the revolution is now, not tomorrow. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Rugby backs can be identified because they generally have clean jerseys and identifiable partings in their hair... come the revolution the backs will be the… — Peter FitzSimons

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