Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

I fear we may live to see another revolution.

It's good for a country to have a revolution every 20 years. I hope that's not where we're going. But, you know, if this Congress keeps going the way it is, people are really looking toward those Second Amendment remedies.

Revolutions rarely end up as positively as they begin.

Politically, [Latin] America is the same as it is physically: the land of the earthquakes.

The Middle East has gone through periods of turmoil before. In the 1950s and 1960s, there were revolutions. When monarchies were collapsing in a number of countries, we had radicals and we had Nasserism. Today it's a little bit more complicated.

Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.

It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions.

Violent revolutions usually only mean a change of personnel at the top.

Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom.

When you think of power, you think the state has power. When you look at it in terms of revolution, in terms of the state, you think of it in terms of Russia, the Soviet Union, and how those who struggled for power actually became victims of the state, prisoners of the state, and how that led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union. We have to think of revolution much more in terms of transitions from one epoch to another.

In politics experiments mean revolutions.

The National Revolution has begun.

It was a bad looking mob. It was animated by the essence of revolution.

Coups usually follow national humiliation.

From the quarrels and seditions which are often stirred up in a commonwealth, it never results that the citizens dissolve it, as often happens in the case of other associations; but only that they change its form into some other

It is when empires begin to fall, that they tend to cause the most mayhem.

Revolutions of state, many times, make way for new institutions and forms; and often determine in either setting up some tyranny at home, or bringing in some conquest from abroad.

Failed states have become breeding grounds for conflict.

The so called “Arab Spring” … is really a situation which is creating more threats so far than positive incentives.

We have enough votes to run the country. And when the people say, We've had enough, we are going to take over.

One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.

Egypt is the next domino to fall and, as they say, so goes Egypt so goes the Middle East.

REVOLUTION, n. A bursting of the boilers which usually takes place when the safety valve of public discussion is closed.

Men are made uneasy; they flinch; they cannot bear the sudden light; a general restlessness supervenes; the face of society is disturbed, or perhaps convulsed; old interests and old beliefs have been destroyed before new ones have been created. These symptoms are the precursors of revolution; they have preceded all the great changes through which the world has passed.

But here's some advice, boy. Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions.