American Quote by Robert Webb

We fought a revolution to free ourselves from arbitrary power and the whims of a monarch.

— Zephyr Teachout

We eliminated the monarchy. We put limits on how long one person could lead our country and on the powers they held while in…

— Tom Steyer

We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us.

— Georg Buchner

Revolution is the only thing, the only power, that ever worked out freedom for any people. The powers that have ruled long and learned…

— Wendell Phillips

“America posed a deeply interesting question to any Frenchmen with a political curiosity to ask it. How had Americans launched a revolution that aimed…

— Alan James Ryan

We do not live in a revolutionary time. People are not prepared to contest power.

— Edward Snowden

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.

— Emma Goldman

We could have a political movement going if it had been properly organized but the Monarchy's done itself enormous damage possibly beyond the point…

— Anthony Holden

Citizens, did you want a revolution without revolution?

— Maximilien Robespierre

It took us a long time to get rid of the effects of the French Revolution 200 years ago. We don't want another one.

— Margaret Thatcher

It was a real revolution. But with one missing feature. That is the feeling in a people that "We have done it once, and…

— Neal Ascherson

Since 1789 history has had a new perspective, revolution being a successful revolt, and revolt a revolution that has failed.

— Andre Malraux