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Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.

—Vladimir Lenin, 1918

Who draws his sword against his prince must throw away the scabbard.

—James Howell, 1659

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

—Benjamin Franklin, 1776

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

—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1983

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

—John F. Kennedy, 1962

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

—Aristotle, c. 350 BC

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. 

—Pierre Boulez, 1989

This 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

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

—Dolores Ibárruri, 1936
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