Revolutionary Consequences Quotes

If there is one safe generalization in human affairs, it is that revolutions always destroy themselves.

The revolution in Russia was terrible for the proletariat in the long years of its development- and it is terrible now.

There was reason to fear that the Revolution, like Saturn, might devour in turn each one of her children.

Make the revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.

A revolution in itself is not a blessing. The revolution accomplished by the French people is, indeed, a wonderful event - the most striking, in my opinion, in history; but it may lead to events which will make it a mighty evil.

This was a "bad" example for U.S. slaves. Haiti was subjected to an embargo from the United States, which, along with many other countries, refused to recognize this new republic.

It seems acceptable today to scream for revolution, without any concept of what will follow it. This is just what the forces at large want, for who will follow a man who doesn't know where he's going?