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In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal…

— John Boyd Orr

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

— Alice Walker

No one can wipe away the injustices of centuries in only eight years.

— Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

“Revolutions are not always brought about by a gradual decline from bad to worse. Nations that have endured patiently and almost unconsciously the most…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

In the long run even the most despotic governments with all their brutality and cruelty are no match for ideas. Eventually the ideology that…

— Ludwig von Mises

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.

— Barbara Tuchman

The whole track of history is marked with the ruin of empires which having been founded in injustice, or perpetuated by wrong, were ultimately…

— William Mackergo Taylor

Ransack the history of revolutions, and it will be found that every fall of a regime has been presaged by a defiance which went…

— Bertrand de Jouvenel

The regime which is destroyed by a revolution is almost always an improvement on its immediate predecessor, and experience teaches that the most critical…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

By the breaking in of enraged merciless armies, flourishing countries have been laid waste, great numbers of people have perished in a short time,…

— John Woolman

There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but…

— Baron de Montesquieu

By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and…

— John Acton