Revolution Quotes

"There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come" "These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman." "When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right" "The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves." "Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement" "Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime" "Every generation needs a new revolution" "When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty" "Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest" "Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy" "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants" "I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world." "Revolutions are the locomotives of history" "Sometimes history needs a push" "One of the basic conditions for the victory of socialism is the arming of the workers and the disarming of the bourgeoisie" "There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen" "No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come" "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles." "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." "The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it."