Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

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

I was born in revolution.

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

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

Revolution, not elections!

The National Revolution has begun.

Campaigns end, revolutions endure.

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.

The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy.

And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all slightly different, but what they all look for is some kind of a mechanism to go from an authoritarian system to an open, democratic system.

There's nothing automatic about political change, about liberation.

I'm going to gather all the French people who want 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.

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

Usually, in any revolution people are focused on who wants to have the most power. But the most important thing is the laws that are written during that time.

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

A revolution is an idea that has found bayonets.

Revolutions do not always establish freedom.

A thirst for liberty seems to be the ruling passion not only of America but of the present age ... it must work anarchy and confusion.

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

Citizens, did you want a revolution without revolution?

The culture of a revolution is not necessarily compatible with the culture of a Constitutional Democracy

Dare! — this word contains all the politics of our revolution.

The American war is over; but this far from being the case with the American revolution. On the contrary, nothing but the first act of the drama is closed. It remains yet to establish and perfect our new forms of government, and to prepare the principles, morals, and manners of our citizens for these forms of government after they are established and brought to perfection.

The passing of state power from one class to another is the first, the principal, the basic sign of a revolution, both in the strictly scientific and in the practical political meaning of that term.