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Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.
Author: Aristotle
Source: Politics (bk. VII, ch. IV)
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A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of
power.
Author: Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton
Source: Speech, in the House of Commons, on the Reform Bill
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Revolutionaries are more formalistic than conservatives.
Author: Italo Calvino
Source: Il Barone Rampante (ch. 28)
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Do you think then that revolutions are made with rose water?
[Fr., Voulez-vous donc qu'on vous fasse des revolutions a
l'eau-rose?]
Author: Sebastien-Roch-Nicolas de Chamfort
Source: to Marmotel, who regretted the excesses of the Revolution
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Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand,
by dividing we fall.
Author: John Dickinson
Source: The Liberty Song
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The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
Author: John Dickinson
Source: The Liberty Song
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It is not a revolt, it is a revolution.
[Fr., Ce n'est pas une revolte, c'est une revolution.]
Author: Francois la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt
Source: to Louis XVI on July 14, 1789
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The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty
revolting about it.
Author: Francois la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt
Source: to Louis XVI on July 14, 1789
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I am the signet which marks the page where the revolution has
been stopped; but when I die it will turn the page and resume its
course.
[Fr., Je suis le signet qui marque la page ou la revolution s'est
arretee; mais quand je serai mort, elle tournera le feuillet et
reprendra sa marche.]
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon I)
Source: to Count Mole
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Revolutions never go backward.
Author: Wendell Phillips
Source: Speech--Progress
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Revolutions are not made; they come.
Author: Wendell Phillips
Source: Speech--Public Opinion
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I know and all the world knows, that revolutions never go
backwards.
Author: William Henry Seward
Source: Speech on the Irrepressible Conflict
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O God! that one might read the book of fate,
And see the revolution of the times
Make mountains level. and the continent,
Weary of solid firmness, melt itself
Into the sea!
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part II (King Henry at III, i)
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Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for
established institutions as well as those who are too good for
them.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Source: Androcles and the Lion
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Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have
only shifted it to another shoulder.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Source: Man and Superman--"The Revolutionist's Handbook"
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
[Lat., Seditiosissimus quisque ignavus.]
Author: Tacitus (Caius Cornelius Tacitus)
Source: Annales (IV, 34)
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Avoid revolution or expect to get shot. Mother and I will
grieve, but we will gladly buy a dinner for the National
Guardsman who shot you.
Author: Dr. Paul Williamson
Source: concerning Kent State massacre
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The Revolution has not yet succeeded. Comrades, you must carry
on!
Author: Sun Yat-sen
Source: on his deathbed
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Revolution is not a dinner party.
Author: Sun Yat-sen
Source: on his deathbed
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Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Source: None
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We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.
Author: Charles F. Kettering
Source: None
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Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
Source: None
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Revolution: in politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
Author: Ambrose Bierce
Source: None
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Many of the world's troubles are not due just to Russia or communism. They would be with us in any event because we live in an era of revolution--the revolution of rising expectations.
Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
Source: None
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I have not yet begun to fight.
Author: John Paul Jones
Source: None
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Revolutionary movements attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Source: None
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Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and force a new one that suits them better.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
Source: None
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It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.
Author: Lenin, Vladimir
Source: None
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Revolutions are not trifles, but spring from trifles.
Author: Aristotle
Source: None
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Make revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.
Author: Edmund Burke
Source: None
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