Will Rogers Quotes

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.

I titled my book "Revolution." And that is exactly what it is. France is experiencing a time of transformation - in education, on the labor market and in the pensions system. We're talking about a cultural revolution.

Good morning, Revolution: You're the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on

The revolution starts now.

A revolution is sometimes necessary, but if revolutions become habitual the country in which they take place is going down-hill

You say you want a revolution? Well, you know. We all want to change the world.

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.

We must remember, elections are short-term efforts. Revolutions are long-term projects.

Poetry is a lousy form of activism; it doesn't really change much. And maybe we can point to one or two historical times when a poem has started a revolution or a rebellion or an uprising, but it doesn't happen that often, and if you put the number of poems next to the number of political acts, it would be pretty slim.

You know, I'm not a revolutionary.

I was born in revolution.

Revolution is not a goal in itself.

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.

A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.

Real change is always violent, but it may hurt a lot less than what's in place before the violence occurs.

All revolutions are violent revolutions.

The tea has been thrown overboard. The revolution of 1860 has been initiated.

We did not have a revolution in order to have a democracy.

America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.

The revolution will stop at nothing. We have changed the nature of politics.

Liberalism is but childishness, which is easily brought to reason; but revolution is a force, and one must know how to use it.

Great political and social changes begin to be possible as soon as men are not afraid to risk their lives.

Agitate, agitate, agitate.

Something is stirring in the hearts and minds of the people.

If revolution insists upon overturning established order, let other peoples make the tragic experiment. There is no place for it in America.