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Quotes About Revolution

We need a revolution every 200 years, because all governments become stale and corrupt after 200 years.
~ Unknown
The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.
~ Thomas Jefferson
But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
~ John Adams
Seek justice from tyrannical governments not with your hat in your hands but with a rifle in your fist.
~ Emiliano Zapata
How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
~ Ronald Reagan
Governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish them at will whenever they become destructive of the ends for which they were established.
~ Jefferson Davis
All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people!
~ Malcolm X
A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.
~ Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
~ Adlai E. Stevenson
If any person has a good word for the previous government that is good enough for me to have him shot.
~ Che Guevara
I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than 10 military divisions.
~ Vaclav Havel
Governments, whether they're dictatorships or democracies, reflect the people. When the people get fed up, they throw them out.
~ Ron Paul
Certainly the worker has nothing to lose by a change from government and capitalism to a condition of no government, of anarchy.
~ Alexander Berkman
National Socialism will use its own revolution for establishing of a new world order.
~ Adolf Hitler
While preaching against every kind of government, and demanding complete freedom, we must support all struggles for partial freedom, because we are convinced that one learns through struggle.
~ Errico Malatesta
Bitcoin might revolutionise more than money or economics. It could transform the role and nature of government
~ Leon Louw
It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.
~ Malcolm X
The right of revolution, which tyrants, in mockery, accord to mankind, is no legal right under a government; it is only a natural right to overturn a government.
~ Lysander Spooner
A government creates its own revolution. There can be no revolt without it.
~ William Powell
Let us drive away those cruel, greedy oppressors, governments, and the new ones, having just laid aside grenades and rifles, will be just and understanding. Far from it.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
~ Baron de Montesquieu