Ferdinand Lassalle

“The constitutional questions, are in the first instance, not questions of right, but questions of might”. –Ferdinand Lassalle

Andrei Grechko

“Liberalization and democratization are in essence counter-revolutionary”. –Andrei Grechko

Muhammad

“Even as the fingers of the two hands are equal, so are human beings equal to one another. No one has any right, nor any preference to claim over another. You are brothers”. –Muhammad

Nicolas Chamfort

“I once read that there’s nothing worse for everyone concerned than a reign that’s lasted too long. I’ve also heard that God is eternal”. –Nicolas Chamfort

George Washington

“Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this August body under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life”. –George Washington

Thomas Francis Meagher

“A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people; but a strong people can alone build up a great nation”. –Thomas Francis Meagher

Lewis Mumford

“Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers”. –Lewis Mumford

Mao Zedong

“War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun”. –Mao Zedong

James Otis

“It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men’s liberty will soon care little for their own”. –James Otis

Barbara Tuchman

“Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed”. –Barbara Tuchman

William James

“Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor”. –William James