Revolution Quotes - Page 31

• I fear we may live to see another revolution.

  John Marshall

  May, American Revolution

  John Marshall (2005). “The Political and Economic Doctrines of John Marshall”, p.90, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• Even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government without horror.

  George Washington

  Character, Government, Horror

  George Washington (1852). “The life of General Washington: first president of the United States”, p.140

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• The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge right or make good decision.

  Alexander Hamilton

  People, Judging, Decision

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• It would be a foetus of monarchy!

  Edmund Randolph

  Would Be, American Revolution, Monarchy

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• Away with your president! We shall have a king... the army will salute him as monarch; your militia will leave you and assist in making him king and fight against you. And what have you to oppose this force? What will then become of you and your rights?

  Patrick Henry

  Kings, Fighting, Army

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, Samuel Bryan, Patrick Henry (2017). “Federalist vs. Anti-Federalist: The Great Debate (Complete Articles & Essays in One Volume): Words that Traced the Path of the Nation - Founding Fathers’ Political and Philosophical Debate, Their Opinions and Arguments about the Constitution”, p.83, Madison & Adams Press

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• On the subject of the history of the American Revolution, you ask who shall write it? Who can write it? And who will ever be able to write it? Nobody, except merely its external facts... all its councils, designs and discussions having been conducted by Congress [behind] closed doors - and no members, as far as I know, having even made notes of them. These, which are the life and soul of history, must forever be unknown.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Writing, Doors, Forever

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• All men are created equal and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Men, Liberty

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• The rebels did more in one night than my whole army would have done in one month.

  William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe

  Army, Night, Rebel

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• Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reform. The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims, have been born of earnest struggle. The conflict has been exciting, agitating, all-absorbing, and for the time being, putting all other tumults to silence. It must do this or it does nothing. If there is no struggle there is no progress.

  Frederick Douglass

  Philosophy, Struggle, August

  Frederick Douglass, Philip Sheldon Foner, Yuval Taylor (1999). “Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.367, Chicago Review Press

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• Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organized aggressive mass action.

  A. Philip Randolph

  Pressure, Action, Broads

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• Victory or defeat? It is the slogan of all-powerful militarism in every belligerent nation. And yet, what can victory bring to the proletariat?

  Rosa Parks

  Powerful, Victory, Defeat

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• This is a gift that I have, simple, simple; a foolish extravagant spirit full of forms, figures, shapes, objects, ideas, apprehensions, motions, revolutions; these are begot in the ventricle of memory, nourished in the womb of pia mater, and delivered upon the mellowing of occasion.

  William Shakespeare

  Memories, Simple, Ideas

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Three Early Comedies: Love's Labor's Lost, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Merry Wives of Windsor”, p.86, Bantam Classics

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• Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  War, Sacrifice, Generations

  Martin Heidegger, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre (2016). “The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism”, p.106, Open Road Media

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• We need to embark on a human revolution. A revolution where our reality is not replaced by drones but augmented by technology to do better.

  Vishal Sikka

  Technology, Journey, Reality

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• My belief has always been... that wherever in this land any individual's constitutional rights are being unjustly denied, it is the obligation of the federal government-at point of bayonet if necessary-to restore that individual's constitutional rights

  Ronald Reagan

  Rights, Government, Land

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• The Civil War created in this country what had never existed before - a national consciousness. It was not the salvation of the Union; it was the rebirth of the Union.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Country, War, Political

  Woodrow Wilson (1916). “Wit and Wisdom of Woodrow Wilson: Extracts from the Public Speeches of the Leader and Interpreter of American Democracy, with Masterpieces of Eloquence”, Best Books

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• If the States do not have the right to secede, then they have no rights at all.

  Walter E. Williams

  Rights, Political, States

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• To those who had ordered them to death, one of them said: “We die because the people are asleep and you will die because the people will awaken.”

  Carl Sandburg

  People, Political, Said

  "The People, Yes".

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• If Abu Nidal is a terrorist, then so is George Washington.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Political, Terrorist, Ifs

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• The man who carried out the attack is still in power and still insane, so we shall expect another attack any minute.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Men, Insane, He Man

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• If there ever are great revolutions there, they will be caused by the presence of the blacks upon American soil.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Political, Soil, Ifs

  "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville, Volume II. Book Three, Chapter XXI, 1840.

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• We have reached the time when it is morally right to "shoot the bastards", but it is not yet practical to do so.

  Vin Suprynowicz

  Political, Practicals

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• Those few days after Kent State were among the darkest of my presidency.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Political, States, Presidency

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• It's embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller's List.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Government, Wind, Political

  "Steal This Book Too!‎". Book by Sean Curtis, 2004.

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• Anger or revolt that does not get into the muscles remains a figment of the imagination.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Imagination, Political, Doe

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

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