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Make the revolution a parent of settlement and not a nursery of future revolutions.

—Edmund Burke, 1790

Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.

—Tennessee Williams, 1944

The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

—Germaine Greer, 1970

The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.

—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1983

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

—Dolores Ibárruri, 1936

In revolutions men fall and rise. Long before this war is over, much as you hear me praised now, you may hear me cursed and insulted.

—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1864

All revolutions devour their own children.

—Ernst Röhm, 1933

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

—François Guizot, 1830

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

—Wendell Phillips, 1859

Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.

—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 63 BC

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the state.

—Albert Camus, 1951

An oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters.

—Henry Clay, 1842

The only justification of rebellion is success.

—Thomas B. Reed, 1878