Calm Quote by Thomas A. Edison

“to find language inspiring to all classes, specific enough in its listing of grievances to charge people with anger against the British, vague enough…

— Howard Zinn

In January 1776, Thomas Paine issued 'Common Sense,' advocating independence from Great Britain.

— Mike Crapo

“Revolution is the harmony of form and color and everything exists, and moves, under only one law: Life. Nobody is separate by anybody else.…

— Frida Khalo

Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his…

— Mike Tyson

The revolution came so suddenly, and in a way so utterly different from what we expected.

— Herman Gorter

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind; and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I detested revolutions; I believed, instead, in reconciliation and reform.”

— Maziar Bahari

“The equality prescribed by the Revolution is simply the weak man's revenge upon the strong; it's just what we saw in the past, but…

— Marquis de Sade

“With the single exception of the American Revolution, the aftermath of all revolutions from 1789 on only worsened the human condition.”

— Arnold Beichman

One of the things we know now that we didn't know then, is that revolutions are very painful to a lot of people. And…

— Howard Rheingold

“ Tom Paine has almost no influence on present-day thinking in the United States because he is unknown to the average citizen. Perhaps I…

— Thomas Edison

“Until Washington crossed the Delaware, the triumph of the old order seemed inevitable. Thereafter, things would never be the same again.”

— David Hackett Fischer