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| C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. |
| Revolution |
| Revolution is the larva of civilization. Victor Hugo. | 1 |
| The worst of revolutions is a restoration. C. J. Fox. | 2 |
| At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power finally rests with the most abandoned. Danton. | 3 |
| General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged, now or at any time. They are always provoked. Burke. | 4 |
| In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness. Tacitus. | 5 |
| Nothing has ever remained of any revolution but what was ripe in the conscience of the masses. Ledru Rollin. | 6 |
| When Marmontel was regretting the excesses of the period, Chamfort asked: “Do you think that revolutions are made with rose-water?” Wendell Phillips. | 7 |
| It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what we call the rights of men become turbulent and dangerous. Lowell. | 8 |
| It is a rule in games of chance that “the cards beat all the players;” and revolutions disconcert and outwit all the insurgents. Emerson. | 9 |
| Revolutions are like the most noxious dungheaps, which bring into life the noblest vegetables. Napoleon. | 10 |
| Stimulants do not give strength, comets do not give heat, and revolutions do not give liberty. Philarete Chasles. | 11 |
| Great revolutions are the work rather of principles than of bayonets, and are achieved first in the moral, and afterwards in the material sphere. Mazzini. | 12 |
| All experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. Jefferson. | 13 |
| The iron harrow of revolution crushes men like the clods of the field, but in the blood-stained furrows germinates a new generation, and the soul aggrieved believes again. Guizot. | 14 |
| As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same. Montesquieu. | 15 |
| The best security against revolution is in constant correction of abuses and introduction of needed improvements. It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary. Whately. | 16 |
| Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest course. Carlyle. | 17 |
| Revolutions are not made, they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back. Wendell Phillips. | 18 |
| We deplore the outrages which accompany revolutions. But the more violent the outrages, the more assured we feel that a revolution was necessary. Macaulay. | 19 |
| The working of revolutions misleads me no more; it is as necessary to our race as its waves to the stream, that it may not be a stagnant marsh. Ever renewed in its forms, the genius of humanity blossoms. Herder. | 20 |
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| It is far more easy to pull down than to build up, and to destroy than to preserve. Revolutions have on this account been falsely supposed to be fertile of great talent; as the dregs rise to the top during a fermentation, and the lightest things are carried highest by the whirlwind. Colton. | 21 |
| Those who give the first shock to a state are naturally the first to be overwhelmed in its ruin. The fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by the man who was the first to set it a going; he only troubles the water for another’s net. Montaigne. | 22 |
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