The Best Quotes About Revolutions And Revolutionaries

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Most divisive: And then, Sir, there is this consideration, that if the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.
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  • 1

    Revolution is an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

    Ambrose Bierce
    17 votes
  • 2

    The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

    Thomas Jefferson
    12 votes
  • 3

    I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

    John Adams
    21 votes
  • 4

    Every revolution was first a thought in one man?s mind.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    11 votes
  • 5

    Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

    11 votes
  • 6

    The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

    Hannah Arendt
    17 votes