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• There are revolutions that are sweeping the world and we in America have been in a position of trying to stop them.
  With all the wealth of America, with all of the military strength of America, those revolutions are revolutions against a form of political and economic organization in the countries of Asia and the Middle East that are oppressive....
• Conservatism is the worship of dead revolutions.
• The worst provincialism of which America can be guilty is the provincialism of prejudice, racial prejudice, prejudice against new and challenging ideas.
  -- Justice William O. Douglas (1898-1980)...
• Fashions have done more harm than revolutions. -- Victor Hugo
• All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying--a good in itself.
  Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings, if only for an hour. -- Edward Abbey...
• It is not by the importation of gold and silver, that the discovery of America has enriched Europe.
  ...The commodities of Europe were almost all new to America, and many of those of America were new to Europe....
• Proletarian revolutions are notably ineffective when the ruling class is composed of gods.
• Revolutions are not made; they come. -- Wendell Phillips (1811-1884) -- Speech, Jan. 28, 1852
• No people in the world ever did achieve their freedom by goody-goody talk and moral suasio
  it being immutable law that all revolutions that will succeed, must begin in blood, whatever the answer afterward....