"Riots are the voices of the unheard."
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"There is no substitute for a militant freedom."
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"Revolutions are effected in two ways, by force and by fraud."
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"Where the laws are not supreme, there demagogues spring up."
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"More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinaires on the one hand, and to the enfeebled and bewildered masses on the other."
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"Revolution Is the affair of logical lunatics."
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"My call is the call of battle- I nourish active rebellion;/ He going with me must go well armed."
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"The seed of revolution is repression."
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"But here's some advice, boy. Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions."
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"Very many and very meritorious were the worthy patriots who assisted in bringing back our government to its republican tack. To preserve it in that, will require unremitting vigilance."
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"In America the word revolutionary is used to sell pantyhose."
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"Revolutions are never waged singing "We Shall Overcome." Revolutions are based upon bloodshed."
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"Revolutions are never peaceful."
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"In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every private employer a dictator, every financier a dictator, all with the livelihood of the workers at his mercy, and no public responsibility."
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"The bigger a state becomes the more liberty diminishes."
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"We built your fort. We will not have it used against us."
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"In the human mind, one-sidedness has always been the rule, and many-sidedness the exception. Hence, even in revolutions of opinion, one part of the truth usually sets while another rises."
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"The road to revolution involves openness to the people, not imperviousness to them; it involves communion with the people, not mistrust."
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"Do you think if the stamp-act is repealed, that the North Americans will be satisfied?"
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"Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward."
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