“When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.”
Oscar Wilde
“Vanity made the [French] Revolution; liberty was only a pretext.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”
Mao Tse-Tung
“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
“Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts.”
Dario Fo
“Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Those who make peaceful revolutions impossible will make violent revolutions inevitable”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy