Revolution Legacy Quotes

I'm kind of like Che Guevera. I lead the revolution, but at some point I turn it over to someone else.

I certainly don't think that the heirs of the American Revolution were a particularly noble class.

The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.

But I'm a daughter of the American revolution, my grandpa fought in World War II, I have lots of family members who were in the military, and it really just was part of growing up for me.

Americans, [John Adams] wrote in 1780, believed that their "revolution is as much for the benefit of the generality of Mankind in Europe, as for their own."

We shall remember Gaddafi our whole lives as a great fighter, a revolutionary and a martyr.

If the Founding Fathers and other patriots who fought during the Revolutionary War could see the United States today, I believe they would be proud of the path that the thirteen colonies, now fifty strong states, have taken since then.

Washington worked very hard to create his legacy. Even before the War of Independence was over, he was assembling his papers and making sure they were going to be in a state of preservation that would represent as best he could the official side of what occurred during the Revolution.

I feel that we have some opportunity in North America to go back and say the American Revolution was the real thing.

My intention still is to write a play to commemorate, possibly rather skeptically, the 50th anniversary of the Russian revolution. I started it at the beginning of 1966, but confronted with the enormous importance and reality of that revolution, I absolutely boggle. I don't know what to do about it.