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Our freedoms were born in the ideals of the Enlightenment and the musket fires of an historic revolution. -- John Boehner
Let's remember that the revolution in Tahrir Square was not anti-American, it was not anti-Israeli, it was for democracy and freedom. That's a good thing. -- Stephen Hadley
We live in a hemisphere whose own revolution has given birth to the most powerful force of the modern age; the search for freedom and self fulfillment of man. -- John F. Kennedy
History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution. -- Gary Ross
Every revolution, bloody or not, has two phases. The first phase is defined by the struggle for freedom, the second by the struggle for power and revenge on the votaries of the ancien regime. -- Adam Michnik
When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism. -- Vladimir Lenin
What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later. -- Jonathan Sacks
When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change. -- Wadah Khanfar
Since the Revolution, eight generations of America's veterans have established an unbroken commitment to freedom. -- Steve Buyer
The end of rebellion is liberation, while the end of revolution is the foundation of freedom. -- Hannah Arendt
We must do away with all newspapers. A revolution cannot be accomplished with freedom of the press. -- Che Guevara
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America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long. -- Ron Paul
There is no other revolution except consciousness. It cuts the desires from the very roots and it brings freedom to you. -- Rajneesh
Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality.... -- Malcolm X
The slogan of the revolution was dignity, social justice, and freedom. You cannot have dignity or social justice or freedom without women. -- Nawal El Saadawi
Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom. Our own free institutions were not the offspring of our revolution. They existed before. -- Millard Fillmore
I was first elected to public office when the Reagan revolution was in full swing. Maximizing freedom guided the policies of that era, with tremendous success. -- Jon Kyl

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