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Insurgents are like conquerors: they must go forward; the moment they are stopped, they are lost.

—Duke of Wellington, c. 1819

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

—Hannah Arendt, 1970

Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.

—Tennessee Williams, 1944

All revolutions devour their own children.

—Ernst Röhm, 1933

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. 

—Pierre Boulez, 1989

Revolutions never go backward.

—Thomas Skidmore, 1829

Revolutions are always verbose.

—Leon Trotsky, 1933

Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.

—Italo Calvino, 1957

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.

—Samuel Johnson, 1791
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