“A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.”
Huey Newton
“Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.”
Hannah Arendt
“The Framers [of the Constitution] knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.”
Hugo Black
“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 exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.”
Abraham Lincoln
“The Framers were not the sort of people, having fought a revolution to get the right of self-government, to sit down and say, 'Let's take all the difficult issues before us and let's have the judges decide them.'”
John Roberts
“Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.”
