The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
—Erich Fromm, 1941Quotes
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, 1864Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1871Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
—John F. Kennedy, 1962Revolutions never go backward.
—Thomas Skidmore, 1829Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.
—Tennessee Williams, 1944Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1776An oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters.
—Henry Clay, 1842This 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 their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
—Abraham Lincoln, 1861