Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [41-60] of 104 Revolution quotesRevolution QuotesRevolution Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.~ Abraham Flexner The colonies would gladly have borne the little tax on tea and other matters, had it not been that England took away from the colonies their money, which created great unemployment and dissatisfaction. Within a year, the poor houses were filled. The hungry and homeless walked the streets everywhere. The inability of the colonists to get power to issue their own money permanently out of the hands of George III and the International Bankers was probably the Prime reason for the Revolutionary War.~ Benjamin Franklin Humanity's most valuable assets have been the non-conformists. Were it not for the non-conformists, he who refuses to be satisfied to go along with the continuance of things as they are, and insists upon attempting to find new ways of bettering things, the world would have known little progress, indeed.~ Josiah William Gitt We are not a charitable institution but a Party of revolutionary socialists.~ Joseph Paul Goebbels I joined the party because I was a revolutionary, not because of any ideological nonsense.~ Hermann Goering The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty.~ Francois Pierre Guizot I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.~ Nathan Hale The revolt against freedom, which can be traced back so far, is associated with a revolt against reason that [gives] sentiment primacy to evaluate actions and experiences according to the subjective emotions with which they are associated.~ Louis J. Halle There, I guess King George will be able to read that.~ John Hancock All discussion, all debate, all dissidence tends to question and in consequence, to upset existing convictions; that is precisely its purpose and its justification.~ Judge Learned Hand It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace -- but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!~ Patrick Henry Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.~ Abbie Hoffman The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.~ Abbie Hoffman The people are Sovereign. ... at the Revolution, the sovereignty devolved on the people; and they are truly the sovereigns of the country, but they are sovereigns without subjects... with none to govern but themselves; the citizens of America are equal as fellow citizens, and as joint tenants in the sovereignty.~ John Jay What country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.~ Thomas Jefferson Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.~ Jesus of Nazareth Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition... well, they are still radical ideas.~ Lyndon B. Johnson Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains and always was.~ D. H. Lawrence Why then sir, why do we longer delay? Why still deliberate? Let this happy day give birth to an American Republic. Let her arise not to devastate and to conquer but to reestablish the reign of peace and law. The eyes of Europe are fixed upon us. She demands of us a living example of freedom that may exhibit a contrast in the felicity of the citizen to the ever-increasing tyranny which desolates her polluted shores. She invites us to prepare an asylum where the unhappy may find solace, and the persecuted repose. If we are not this day wanting in our duty, the names of the American legislators of 1776 will be placed by posterity at the side of all of those whose memory has been and ever will be dear to virtuous men and good citizens.~ Richard Henry Lee I don’t care what becomes of Russia. To hell with it. All this is only the road to a World Revolution.~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print