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Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.

A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.

Revolutionaries are more formalistic than conservatives.

Do you think then that revolutions are made with rose water?

Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

It is not a revolt, it is a revolution.

The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.

I am the signet which marks the page where the revolution has been stopped; but when I die it will turn the page and resume its course.

Revolutions never go backward.

Revolutions are not made; they come.

I know and all the world knows, that revolutions never go backwards.

O God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level. and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea!

Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

The most seditious is the most cowardly.

Avoid revolution or expect to get shot. Mother and I will grieve, but we will gladly buy a dinner for the National Guardsman who shot you.

The Revolution has not yet succeeded. Comrades, you must carry on!

Revolution is not a dinner party.

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder.