In the fluid world of 1919, it was possible to dream of great change, or have nightmares about the collapse of order.

Ask for work. If they don't give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread.

Mustafa Kemal drily reminds his co-conspirators that the object is not to die for the revolution, but to live for it.

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.

Kings may usurp thrones, republics may be established, but the town scarcely stirs. Plassan sleeps while Paris fights.

Revolutions usually begin as replacements for older certainties, and not as pristine discoveries in uncharted terrain.

You see, gentlemen, they have something to die for. They've discovered they're a people. They're awakening.

Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep the leper as he is.

Am I seeing or am i dreamingIts showing so I'm believingAm i seeing what i believe orAm i being shown then believing

If you can be heartless as the first man who visited the space, then there will be nothing impossibe for you to achieve.

Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.

Revolution from above, in some states and cases, is [...] often preferable to the status quo, or to no revolution at all.

Are the worst enemies of society those who attack it or those who do not even give themselves the trouble of defending it?

It was muskets that won the Revolution. And don't forget it was axes, and plows that made this country.- Father Wilde

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.