Thomas Jefferson Quotes

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

Every revolution is the consequence of one revolution and the beginning of another.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.

The revolution is a torrent which sweeps aside those who resist it.

Beginning reform is beginning revolution.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history. Drive them full speed ahead and keep them on the rails... .

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

It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.

Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.

I was born in revolution.

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

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.

Revolution is born as a social entity within the oppressor society.

The word Revolution, which we Socialists are so often forced to use, has a terrible sound in most people's ears, even when we have explained to them that it does not necessarily mean a change accompanied by riot and all kinds of violence

When you look at the times in history when change was brought about, there were two factors: crisis and leadership.

Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.

One of the reasons that change takes place is that the people who produce it believe change can take place.

it is not the topping of a regime that determines the overall success of a revolution -- it's dismantling the past in favor of a better future.

Heroism means going out of bounds. In this world things must go out of bounds from time to time... No one can desire that the world continue to muddle along in every respect in the groove into which imperfect laws and even more imperfect behavior have pushed it. Without heroic intervention no Council of Nicaea, no dethronement of the Merovingians, no conquest of England, no Reformation, no revolt of the Netherlands, no free America. The thing that counts is who intervenes, how and in the name of what.

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

Revolution means turning the wheel.

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