Revolution Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

40 Revolution Quotes
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“The most seditious is the most cowardly. [Lat., Seditiosissimus quisque ignavus.]”
Tacitus (Caius Cornelius Tacitus) Quotes
Source: Annales (IV, 34)
“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.”
Dr. Paul Williamson Quotes
Source: concerning Kent State massacre
“The Revolution has not yet succeeded. Comrades, you must carry on!”
Sun Yat-sen Quotes
Source: on his deathbed
“Revolution is not a dinner party.”
Sun Yat-sen Quotes
Source: on his deathbed
“Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder.”
George Bernard Shaw Quotes
“We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.”
Charles F. Kettering Quotes
“Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
“Revolution: in politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.”
Ambrose Bierce Quotes
“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.”
Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes
“I have not yet begun to fight.”
John Paul Jones Quotes
“Revolutionary movements attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.”
George Bernard Shaw Quotes
“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.”
Abraham Lincoln Quotes
“It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.”
Lenin, Vladimir Quotes
“Revolutions are not trifles, but spring from trifles.”
Aristotle Quotes
“Make revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.”
Edmund Burke Quotes