All men recognize the right of revolution, that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1849Issue Coming Soon
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It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
—Dolores Ibárruri, 1936The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1983No one makes a revolution by himself, and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.
—George Sand, 1851Insurgents are like conquerors: they must go forward; the moment they are stopped, they are lost.
—Duke of Wellington, c. 1819The only justification of rebellion is success.
—Thomas B. Reed, 1878The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty.
—François Guizot, 1830Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1776Make the revolution a parent of settlement and not a nursery of future revolutions.
—Edmund Burke, 1790All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
—Havelock Ellis, 1921Pages
