Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Revolutions never go backward.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history. Drive them full speed ahead and keep them on the rails... .

Revolutions do not go backward.

Revolution means turning the wheel.

We are revolutionaries.

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.

Revolutions come in two stages: the bit where everything gets smashed and the bit where you have to build it again. The first is great fun; the second is so very hard.

Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.

Sometimes - history needs a push.

We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.

The revolution is a torrent which sweeps aside those who resist it.

Every revolution is the consequence of one revolution and the beginning of another.

If revolution insists upon overturning established order, let other peoples make the tragic experiment. There is no place for it in America.

Citizens, did you want a revolution without revolution?

Heroism means going out of bounds. In this world things must go out of bounds from time to time... No one can desire that the world continue to muddle along in every respect in the groove into which imperfect laws and even more imperfect behavior have pushed it. Without heroic intervention no Council of Nicaea, no dethronement of the Merovingians, no conquest of England, no Reformation, no revolt of the Netherlands, no free America. The thing that counts is who intervenes, how and in the name of what.

We are revolutionists from head to foot; revolutionists we were; revolutionists we are; revolutionists we shall remain until the very end.

… revolution is in vain unless inspired by its ultimate ideal

I've always said - I've always said I'm not, by temperament, a romantic about revolutions or given to revolutions. I've always thought that they are not the ideal way to change.

We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in.

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.

We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us.

I was born in revolution.