Quotes About Revolution

Some of my ancestors fought in the American Revolution. A few more wore red coats, a few wore blue coats, and the rest wore no coats at all. We never did figure out who won that war.

Rick Perry said America's revolutionary war was fought in the 16th century. When told it was actually the 18th century, Perry apologized and said, 'I never said I was a geology major.'

A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.

No nation has the right to bring about a revolution, even though such a change may be most urgently needed, if the price is the blood of one single innocent individual.

I grew up during the Revolution of Iran and the war between Iran and Iraq. The things that I saw. The impact. How it changes you. How it changes the way you look at the world.

There is an alternative to war. It's staying in bed and growing your hair.

What good would it be to fight a war with the British and end up with your own king? Nobody had any idea that George Washington would be George Washington.

This is the moment of your defeat; you have just put in the last nails in the coffin of communism.

What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press has done for the mind; and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel of special education, but every reading man is his judge.

One war, such as that of our Revolution, is enough for one life.

'Star Wars' gave birth to all the computer-generated superhero films.

By the rude bridge that arched the flood Their flag to April's breeze unfurl'd Here once the embattl'd farmers stood And fired the shot heard round the world.

The wheels of history are lubricated with human blood.

I've survived revolution, war, and over a decade on this continent, " the Burgrave reflected. "But by all the ghosts of the hundred emperors, I think fatherhood will finally do me in.

Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

A new age is approaching, and its advent might make us pray to go back to the days of the trenches. Once the Worldwaker goes off, we will never be able to sleep again.

I am not going to leave this land, I will die as a martyr at the end … I shall remain, defiant. Muammar is leader of the revolution until the end of time.

In the history of battles and wars, the massacres of civilians were the main reason of revolutions success.

The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War - when I really think about them, they all seem about as likely as the parting of the Red Sea.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention.

To assault the total culture totally is to be free to use all the fruits of mankind's wisdom and experience without the rotten structure in which these glories are encased and encrusted.

Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.

Spiritual wisdom is now available to everyone, disseminated to the masses as never before in world history.