Jean-Paul Marat Quotes

Revolutions do not always establish freedom.

The Bolivarian revolution has no future and it has shown a lack of results.

When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters.

Men like me, who merely wish to establish political freedom, will in such circumstances lose all their influence, and others will get influence who may become dangerous to all established interests whatsoever.

The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.

We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us.

You have to understand that to have a revolution when you are 18 years old is completely different from normal political leaders who were born in a democracy and will die in a democracy and never to have experienced that change. I have seen that change.

He who would be free must strike the first blow.

Revolutions that cannot resist regicide—the French and the Russian come to mind—have a way of ending badly.

The government have sent the spirit of discord through the land, and I will prophesy, that it will never be extinguished, but by the extinction of their power. A nation as sensible as the English, will see that a spirit of concord, when they are oppressed, means a tame submission to injury, and that a spirit of liberty ought then to arise, and I am sure ever will, in proportion to the weight of the grievance they feel.

The generation which commences a revolution can rarely complete it

It is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.

The coming change can only come through a revolution, because the possessing class will not allow a peaceful change to take place; still we are willing to work for peace at any price, except at the price of liberty.

There seemed to be no willingness to fight on the part of the dissident forces [anti Communists in Indonesia] … The dissident leaders have been unable to provide their soldiers with any idea of why they were fighting.

The right of the revolution is the right of the future.

No revolution can ever succeed as a factor of liberation unless the MEANS used to further it be identical in spirit and tendency with the PURPOSES to be achieved.

In the days of the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle, our women waged a bloody struggle with weapons in their hands to liberate their country.

There is no substitute for a militant freedom.

The revolution is ... the blow dealt ... agains the counter force of tyranny, which has never entirely recovered from the blow, but which from then till now has gone on remolding and regrappling the instruments of governmental power, that the Revolution sought to shape and hold as defenses of liberty.

Away with the idea of getting independence first, and looking for liberty afterwards... Our liberties, once lost, may be lost forever.

Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom.

Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom. Our own free institutions were not the offspring of our revolution. They existed before.

The bigger a state becomes the more liberty diminishes.

The first step in saving our liberty is to realize how much we have already lost, how we lost it, and how we will continue to lose it unless fundamental political changes occur.

All gentle cant and philosophizing to the contrary notwithstanding, no people in this world ever did achieve their freedom by goody-goody talk and moral suasion: it being immutable law that all revolutions that will succeed, must begin in blood.