With the first act of cruelty committed in the name of revolution, with the first murder, with the first purge and execution, we have lost the revolution.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Nothing has been left undone by the enemies of freedom. Every art and artifice, every cruelty and outrage has been practiced and perpetrated to destroy the rights of man. In this great struggle, every crime has been rewarded and every virtue has been punished.
All revolutions are violent revolutions.
Few revolutions succeed, and when they do, you often discover they did not gain what you hoped for, and you condemn yourself to perpetual fear, as the parties you defeated may always regain power and work for your ruin.
The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.
In my lifetime, we have lost a President, a Civil Rights leader and a Presidential candidate - all to gun violence.
We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us.
Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.
The seed of revolution is repression.
The worst of revolutions is a restoration.
Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.