Well, you know…We all want to change the world, to quote John Lennon. The uprisings in the Middle East recently tend to strike a chord for many in America, probably because somewhere deep inside, we have an image of the country being created overnight by brave rebels. It usually doesn’t work that way though…

When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.
-Oscar Wilde

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.
-John Fitzgerald

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
-G. K. Chesterton

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder
-George Bernard Shaw

Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainly and modestly.
-Mao Tse-Tung

We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they’ve never had to present a working model
-Charles F. Kettering