The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.
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The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
What was the American Revolution? The people who joined to carry it out had different views of what they had done.
Every revolution seems impossible at the beginning, and after it happens, it was inevitable.
American government did not originate in any abstract theories about liberty and equality, but in the actual experience gained by generation after generation of English colonists in managing their own political affairs. The Revolution did not make a breach in the continuity of their institutional life.
We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us.
The American Revolution was, in fact, a battle against the philosophy of Locke and the English utilitarians.
Remember that the revolution is what is important, and each one of us, alone, is worth nothing.
Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.
America is the first country... that can actually have a bloodless revolution.
The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.
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