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Quotes by Revolutionary
"I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death."
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"The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks."
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"The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms."
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"A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him."
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"Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes."
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"I've never heard of any president being so close to his people."
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"In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time."
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"Force is the duty of the state, not Hizbullah."
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"How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!"
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"We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them."
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"Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?"
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"If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy."
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"Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws."
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"There are only two roads, victory for the working class, freedom, or victory for the fascists which means tyranny. Both combatants know what's in store for the loser."
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"Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary."
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"If we had had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes."
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"Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction."
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"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined."
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"Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity."
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"We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that."
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"Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can."
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"People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy."
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"From each according to his faculties; to each according to his needs."
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"The passion for destruction is also a creative passion."
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"They make revolutionary propaganda because they know the privileged class can never be overturned peacefully."
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"Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness."
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"We did not start a fight with America, and we don't want a war with America. If someone launches an attack, though, we will respond. We will not take rejection or humiliation. We do not want to fight."
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"In man - in the history of mankind, this has happened many times, and occupation leaders hang on to the land that they're occupying. People fight to liberate their land. But in the end, the people's will is what achieves victory."
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"The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual."
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"I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience."
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"My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right."
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"The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule."
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"I like dreams of the future better than the history of the past."
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"The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history."
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"We carry a new world here, in our hearts. That world is growing this minute."
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"England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases."
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"Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty."
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"I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion."
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"Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement."
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"I'm William Wallace, and the rest of you will be spared. Go back to England and tell them... Scotland is free!"
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"Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason."
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"Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none!."
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"Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them."
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"Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness."
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"Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect."
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"At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned."
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"'God' - as revealed in his book of edicts and narratives is practically an idiot. He has nothing to say that any sensible person should want to listen to."
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