Revolution: in politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

Revolution: in politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

Revolution is not a dinner party.

Revolution is not a dinner party.

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

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

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.

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

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

Avoid revolution or expect to get shot. Mother and I will
grieve, but we will gladly buy a dinner read more

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.

If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it read more

If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to read more

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

Revolutionaries are more formalistic than conservatives.

Revolutionaries are more formalistic than conservatives.