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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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Source Unknown

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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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Source Unknown

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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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