Revolutions and Revolutionaries Quotes
47 quotations about Revolutions and Revolutionaries
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake.
Thinkers prepare the revolution and bandits carry it out.
Revolution begins with the self, in the self.
Revolution is an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
Every revolutionary ends up by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic.
A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.
Clemency is also a revolutionary measure.
Our cause is just. Our union is perfect.
I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.
Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long.
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, to raise up commonwealths, and ruin kings.
Every revolution was first a thought in one man?s mind.
To be a revolutionary you have to be human being. You have to care about people who have no power.
The worst of revolutions is a restoration.
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.
The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty.
When people contend for their liberty they seldom get anything for their victory, but new masters.
Whether a revolutions succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.
I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.
Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.
Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.
Authors on Revolutions and Revolutionaries
John Adams
Hannah Arendt
Aristotle
Mariano Azuela
Toni Cade Bambara
Ambrose Bierce
Albert Camus
Fidel Castro
Camille Desmoulins
John Dickinson
Benjamin Disraeli
Milovan Djilas
John Dryden
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jane Fonda
Charles James Fox
Erich Fromm
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Francois (Pierre Guillaume) Guizot
Edward F. Halifax