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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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When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people. – Edmund Burke

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Voting
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature. – Edmund Burke

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Change
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Edmund Burke
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing. – Edmund Burke

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Promises
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Revolution
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Revolution begins with the self, in the self. – Toni Cade Bambara

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Revolution

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

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Revolution

The dead have been awakened — shall I sleep? The worlds at war with tyrants — shall I crouch? the harvests ripe — and shall I pause to reap? I slumber not; the thorn is in my couch; Each day a trumpet soundeth in mine ear, its echo in my heart. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Revolution

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

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Random Quotes

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things… I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. – Leo Buscaglia

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Nature

Ive been very competitive by nature from a young age, whether it was eating a bowl of pasta faster than somebody else, or always wanting to be the first one in line. – Maria Sharapova

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Age

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin. – Charles Darwin

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great

There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come. – Everett Dirksen

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power