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Revolutions are not about trifles, but they are produced by trifles. 

—Aristotle, c. 350 BC

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1871

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.

—John Kenneth Galbraith, 1977

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

—Dolores Ibárruri, 1936

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

—John F. Kennedy, 1962

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

—Benjamin Franklin, 1776

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

—Hannah Arendt, 1970

If there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.

—Thomas Paine, 1778

Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.

—Italo Calvino, 1957
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