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My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to heaven go. - William Shakespeare It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand. - Mark Twain I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe. - Albert Einstein One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. - George Bernard Shaw We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. - Henry David Thoreau In Heaven, all the interesting people are missing. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.

- Aristotle

A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.

- Bulwer-Lytton

At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power finally rests with the most abandoned.

- Danton

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws. But when it comes it moves irresistibly.

- Vladimir Lenin

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.

- Abraham Lincoln

Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Working men of all countries, unite!

- Karl Marx

Revolutions are not made; they come.

- Wendell Phillips

If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country I never would lay down my arms,—never! never! never!

- William Pitt