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"Those who are bent on revolutionizing society may be divided into those who seek something for themselves thereby and those who seek something for their children and grandchildren."
"It is an observation of one of the profoundest inquirers into human affairs that a revolution of government is the strongest proof that can be given by a people of their virtue and good sense."
"I was very strenuous for retaining and insisting on it [law of nature], as a resource to which we might be driven by Parliament much sooner than we were aware."
"We are in the the very midst of a revolution, the most complete, unexpected and remarkable of any in the history of nations."
"A technological revolution on the farm has led to an output explosion--but we have not yet learned to harness that explosion usefully, while protecting our farmers' right to full parity income"
"Suspicion on one side breeds suspicion on the other, and new weapons beget counter-weapons."
"You say you want a revolution? Well, you know. We all want to change the world."
"I thought I was painting in sound a picture of revolution - but I made a mistake, you know. The mistake was that it was anti-revolution."
"'Revolution' . There were two versions of that song but the underground left only picked up on the one that said 'count me out'."
"The way of even the most jusitifiable revolution is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds."
"During the whole time I sat with him in Congress, I never heard him utter three sentences together."
"I think a revolution can survive without single centralized leadership."
"The sooner our society admits that the Negro Revolution is no momentary outburst soon to subside into placid passivity, the easier the future will be for us all."
"Revolution in Love’. Can you tell me what you mean by that? Do you want free love as against bourgeois marriage, or monogamy as against bourgeois promiscuity?"
"Revolution is obstructed evolution."
"Revolution by its nature can not be overly programmed or directed. There are so many forces at work that you don't know where and how it all ends."
