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A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.
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Dean William R. Inge
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A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.
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Fidel Castro
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All revolutions devour their own children.
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Ernst Rohm
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Clemency is also a revolutionary measure.
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Camille Desmoulins
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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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Franz Kafka
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Every revolution was first a thought in one man?s mind.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Every revolutionary ends up by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic.
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Albert Camus
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Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
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Barbara Tuchman
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I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.
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Benjamin Disraeli
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I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
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John Adams
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I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.
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Abbie Hoffman
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If not us, who? If not now, when?
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If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag, wash it.
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Norman Thomas
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In a revolution, as in a novel. the most difficult part to invent is the end.
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Alexis De Tocqueville
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In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake.
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Aristotle
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In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat.
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King Jr. Martin Luther
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Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice.
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Voltaire
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It is easier to run a revolution than a government.
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Ferdinand E. Marcos
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Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
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Henrik Ibsen
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Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long.
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Milovan Djilas
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On the first day of a revolution he is a treasure; on the second he ought to be shot.
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One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.
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Will Rogers
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Our cause is just. Our union is perfect.
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John Dickinson
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, to raise up commonwealths, and ruin kings.
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John Dryden
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Revolution begins with the self, in the self.
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Toni Cade Bambara
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Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.
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Tom Stoppard
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Revolution is an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
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Ambrose Bierce
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Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.
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Wyndham Lewis
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Revolutions are always verbose.
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Leon Trotsky
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Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.
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Kwame Nkrumah
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Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Revolutions are not made for export.
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Nikita Khrushchev
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Revolutions are not made, they come.
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Wendell Phillips
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Revolutions never go backward.
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Wendell Phillips
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Riots are the voices of the unheard.
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King Jr. Martin Luther
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The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
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Plato
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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
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Hannah Arendt
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The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty.
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Francois (Pierre Guillaume) Guizot
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The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
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Erich Fromm
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The worst of revolutions is a restoration.
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Charles James Fox
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Thinkers prepare the revolution and bandits carry it out.
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Mariano Azuela
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Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
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John F. Kennedy
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To be a revolutionary you have to be human being. You have to care about people who have no power.
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Jane Fonda
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When people contend for their liberty they seldom get anything for their victory, but new masters.
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Edward F. Halifax
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Whether a revolutions succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.
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Heinrich Heine
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You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.
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Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
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