Wendell Phillips Quotes About Revolution

Quotes about: Revolution

• Revolutions are not made: they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.

  Wendell Phillips

  Past, Growth, Foundation

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.36

• Revolutions are not made, they come.

  Wendell Phillips

  Revolution, Rebellious, Made

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.36

• Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.

  Wendell Phillips

  Political, Pulse, Fever

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.152

• Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress.

  Wendell Phillips

  Political, Progress, World

• Revolution is the only thing, the only power, that ever worked out freedom for any people. The powers that have ruled long and learned to love ruling, will never give up that prerogative until they must, till they see the certainty of overthrow and destruction if they do not. To plant-to revolutionize-these are the twin stars that have ruled our pathway. What have we then to dread in the word Revolution-we, the children of rebels!

  Wendell Phillips

  Stars, Children, Giving Up

• Revolutions never go backwards.

  Wendell Phillips

  Revolution, Backwards

  "Speech". February 17, 1861.

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