"The Revolution was effected before the War commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations. This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people, was the real American Revolution."

Adams, John on Revolutions and Revolutionaries
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"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy."

Adams, John on Revolutions and Revolutionaries
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"The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution."

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"In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake."

Aristotle on Revolutions and Revolutionaries
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"Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions."

Aristotle on Revolutions and Revolutionaries
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"Thinkers prepare the revolution and bandits carry it out."

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"Revolution begins with the self, in the self."

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"Revolution is an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment."

Bierce, Ambrose on Revolutions and Revolutionaries
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"So they united, and the Communist revolution took the chain from their legs and wound it around their necks."

Bonom, Samuel on Revolutions and Revolutionaries
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"I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood."

Brown, John Mason on Revolutions and Revolutionaries
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"Men are made uneasy; they flinch; they cannot bear the sudden light; a general restlessness supervenes; the face of society is disturbed, or perhaps convulsed; old interests and old beliefs have been destroyed before new ones have been created. These symptoms are the precursors of revolution; they have preceded all the great changes through which the world has passed."

Buckle, Henry Thomas on Revolutions and Revolutionaries
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"I had such a wonderful feeling last night, walking beneath the dark sky while cannon boomed on my right and guns on my left the feeling that I could change the world only by being there."

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"The dead have been awakened -- shall I sleep? The world's at war with tyrants -- shall I crouch? the harvest's ripe -- and shall I pause to reap? I slumber not; the thorn is in my couch; Each day a trumpet soundeth in mine ear, its echo in my heart."

Byron, Lord on Revolutions and Revolutionaries
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"Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history."

Camus, Albert on Revolutions and Revolutionaries
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"Every revolutionary ends up by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic."

Camus, Albert on Revolutions and Revolutionaries
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"More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinaires on the one hand, and to the enfeebled and bewildered masses on the other."

Camus, Albert on Revolutions and Revolutionaries
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"A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past."

Castro, Fidel on Revolutions and Revolutionaries
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"I feel my belief in sacrifice and struggle getting stronger. I despise the kind of existence that clings to the miserly trifles of comfort and self-interest. I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened."

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"I began revolution with 82 men. If I had [To] do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action."

Castro, Fidel on Revolutions and Revolutionaries
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"You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on Revolutions and Revolutionaries
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"The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement -- but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims."

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"The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas. Its hard absolute optimism is repulsive to my mind by the menace of fanaticism and intolerance it contains. No doubt one should smile at these things; but, imperfect Esthete, I am no better Philosopher. All claim to special righteousness awakens in me that scorn and anger from which a philosophical mind should be free."

Conrad, Joseph on Revolutions and Revolutionaries
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"Clemency is also a revolutionary measure."

Desmoulins, Camille on Revolutions and Revolutionaries
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"Our cause is just. Our union is perfect."

Dickinson, John on Revolutions and Revolutionaries
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"Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs."

Diderot, Denis on Revolutions and Revolutionaries
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"I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded."

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"Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long."

Djilas, Milovan on Revolutions and Revolutionaries
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"Plots, true or false, are necessary things, to raise up commonwealths, and ruin kings."

Dryden, John on Revolutions and Revolutionaries
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"Every revolution was first a thought in one man?s mind."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Revolutions and Revolutionaries
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"If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era?"

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"To be a revolutionary you have to be human being. You have to care about people who have no power."

Fonda, Jane on Revolutions and Revolutionaries
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"The worst of revolutions is a restoration."

Fox, Charles James on Revolutions and Revolutionaries
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"The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal."

Fromm, Erich on Revolutions and Revolutionaries
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"All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum."

Galbraith, John Kenneth on Revolutions and Revolutionaries
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"A revolution does not last more than fifteen years, the period which coincides with the flourishing of a generation."

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"The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology."

Genet, Jean on Revolutions and Revolutionaries
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"A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on Revolutions and Revolutionaries
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"The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed."

Greer, Germaine on Revolutions and Revolutionaries
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"The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so."

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"The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty."

Guizot, Francois (Pierre Guillaume) on Revolutions and Revolutionaries
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