I’ve always figured that when the suffering and violence that went into a revolution is forgotten in favor of fireworks and empty hero worship, it’s probably time for another….

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
- Edward R. Murrow

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

The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.
- Woodrow Wilson

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
- John F. Kennedy

A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.
- Joseph Stalin

Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
- John V. Lindsay

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
- Adlai Stevenson