Quote by Edmund Burke
A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatien

A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering. – Edmund Burke

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Revolution is an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. – Ambrose Bierce

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The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value which supports him is never given to him once and for all — he must fight to uphold it, unceasingly. – Albert Camus

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In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interests are at stake. – Aristotle

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So they united, and the Communist revolution took the chain from their legs and wound it around their necks. – Samuel Bonom

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