"I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded."
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"Know yourself and fit yourself to new fashions. For there is a new ruler among the gods."
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"When the views entertained in this volume on the origin of species, or when analogous views are generally admitted, we can dimly forsee that there will be a considerable revolution in natural history."
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"It is a revolution that came to power with its own army and on the ruins of the army of oppression."
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"If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone."
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"All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State."
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"In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake."
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"I think that one of the great things that the Cuban revolution has done is preserve history."
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"Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions."
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"Rebellion in this land shall lose his sway, meeting the check of such another day."
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"Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper's that make an ordered life impossible."
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"Wherever a man comes, there comes revolution. The old is for slaves."
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"There can be conscious revolution."
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"Everything I see about me is sowing the seeds of a revolution that is inevitable, though I shall not have the pleasure of seeing it. The lightning is so close at hand that it will strike at the first chance, and then there will be a pretty uproar. The young are fortunate, for they will see fine things."
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"All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale."
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"Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest course."
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"I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom."
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"It can never be too often repeated, that the time for fixing every essential right on a legal basis is while our rulers are honest, and ourselves united."
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"The word 'revolution' is a word for which you kill, for which you die, for which you send the labouring masses to their deaths; but which does not contain any content."
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"We have not inherited an easy world. If developments like the Industrial revolution, which began here in England, and the gifts of science and technology have made life much easier for us, they have also made it more dangerous."
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