Quotes About Revolution

Well, there are all of the names you would recognize - Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Tom Paine, Paul Revere. There are over three hundred of us, actually. I wish all were as well known to this generation as the others. Every one played a part - along with thousands of others whose names are no in any history books.

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing. Advance with it!

The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants.

0 liberty! how many crimes are committed in thy name!

Time is the greatest innovator.

If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down, these women together ought to be able to turn it right side up again.

Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.

It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity.

Thinkers prepare the revolution; bandits carry it out.

If we should promise people nothing better than only revolution, they would scratch their heads and say, 'Isn't it better to have good goulash?'

Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.

A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.

At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power finally rests with the most abandoned.

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws. But when it comes it moves irresistibly.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.

Innovators are inevitably controversial.

Cultural transformation announces itself in sputtering fits and starts, sparked here and there by minor incidents, warmed by new ideas that may smolder for decades. In many different places, at different times, the kindling is laid for the real conflagration-the one that will consume the old landmarks and alter the landscape forever.

Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.

But it does move.

John the Baptist pretending to be Karl Marx.

Right on, brother hippies, the [??n!$] is mightier than the sword!

It is true that from time to time Jews suffered from the fury of an exploited peasantry or their competitors. But from time to time the aristocracy suffered the same fate. Thousands of French aristocrats were slaughtered during peasant uprisings or at the Great Terror of 1793. Many Russian aristocrats were killed or expelled during the October Revolution of 1917. Many of them were innocent, for class warfare can be as cruel as any war.

Možda revolucije ra?aju ?udovišta? -Jeste, ali one se za?inju u veli?ini i moralnoj ?istoti, ali ra?aju ?udovišta.

What is today a matter of academic speculation begins tomorrow to move armies and pull down empires.