Thomas Jefferson Quotes

It is not necessary to wait until all conditions for making revolution exist; the insurrection can create them.

Three words remain that can yet stir the blood of man: the word 'rebellion'; the word 'revolt'; the word 'revolution'.

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it's a good thing.

In any social revolution the one thing that keeps it alive is hope.

Agitated by revolutionary movements, these grow in proportion to the force that resists them.

We will stay in the streets until we have freedom for Venezuela.

I do see myself as aiming to foment some kind of revolution.

A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.

A little rebellion is a good thing.

The end of rebellion is liberation, while the end of revolution is the foundation of freedom.

To dare: that is the whole secret of revolutions.

What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Tomorrow the revolution will already 'raise itself with a rattle' and announce with fanfare, to your terror: I was, I am, I will be!

With rebellion, awareness is born

God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.

While you live, the revolution lives

The Syrian people, the Egyptian people, all say that something is changing. The Berlin Wall has fallen. We can see it.

It was the night things changed, can you see it now? These walls that they put up to hold us back fell down It's a revolution, throw your hands up, 'cause we never gave in

Insurrection is the most sacred of rights and the most indispensable of duties.

The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

Despair and frustration will not shake our belief that the resistance is the only way of liberation.