Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing read more

Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and force a new one that suits them better.

I have not yet begun to fight.

I have not yet begun to fight.

O God! that one might read the book of fate,
And see the revolution of the times
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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!

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

Those who hate most fervently must have once loved deeply; those who want to deny the world must have once read more

Those who hate most fervently must have once loved deeply; those who want to deny the world must have once embraced what they now set on fire.

Revolutions never go backward.

Revolutions never go backward.

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

It is not a revolt, it is a revolution.
[Fr., Ce n'est pas une revolte, c'est une revolution.]

It is not a revolt, it is a revolution.
[Fr., Ce n'est pas une revolte, c'est une revolution.]

I am the signet which marks the page where the revolution has
been stopped; but when I die it read more

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.
[Fr., Je suis le signet qui marque la page ou la revolution s'est
arretee; mais quand je serai mort, elle tournera le feuillet et
reprendra sa marche.]