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“The French Revolution, which is nothing more nor less than the ideal armed with the sword, rose abruptly, and by that very movement, closed the door of evil and opened the door of good.It released ...”
“Every reform was once a private opinion and when it shall be a private opinion again it will solve the problem of the age.”
“Thinkers prepare the revolution bandits carry it out.”
“Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal and equals that they may be superior.”
“In almost any society I think the quality of the non-conformists is like to be just as good as and no better than that of the conformists.”
“Whatever little we have gained we have gained by agitation while we have uniformly lost by moderation.”
“One revolution is like one cocktail it just gets you organized for the next.”
“The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity sluggish and indomitable as a glacier will mitigate the most violent and depress the most exalted revolution.”
“It is not the prisoners who need reformation it is the prisons.”
“I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.”
“If we should promise people nothing better than only revolution they would scratch their heads and say 'Isn't it better to have good goulash?'”
“Revolutions are not about trifles but spring from trifles.”
“A reform is a correction of abuses a revolution is a transfer of power.”
“At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power finally rests with the most abandoned.”
“This country with its institutions belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or the...”
“If I were an American as I am an Englishman while a foreign troop was landed in my country I never would lay down my arms - never! never! never!”
