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It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
Samuel Adams
Prevail
Freedom
Minority
Men
Setting
Minds
Rather
Take
Majority
Does
Tireless
Keen
The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
Samuel Adams
Constitution
People
Own
States
Citizens
Prevent
Shall
Never
Arms
Who
Peaceable
United
United States
Keeping
If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.
Che Guevara
You
Injustice
Every
Tremble
Mine
Indignation
Comrade
Then
The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.
Samuel Adams
Freedom
Constitution
Worth
Country
Duty
Our
Liberties
Civil
Attacks
Hazards
Against
Them
Defend
Defending
Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world. This is the most beautiful quality in a revolutionary.
Che Guevara
Beautiful
Injustice
Quality
World
Most Beautiful
Feeling
Above
Most
Always
Revolutionary
Committed
Any
Anyone
Anywhere
Against
Capable
Deeply
He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.
Samuel Adams
Life
Man
Obligations
Will
Feeling
Country
Lost
Before
Virtuous
Guilty
Moral
Betraying
Void
Seldom
Had
Instance
He
Soon
Private
His
Private Life
Very
Regard
Who
Connections
We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.
Che Guevara
Live
Unless
We Cannot
Willing
Something
Having
Sure
Die
Cannot
Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
Leon Trotsky
Life
Great
You
Frustration
Matter
Before
Live
Unless
Weakness
Great Idea
Easy
Kinds
Above
Through
Misery
Idea
Without
Falling
Personal
Cannot
Which
Cynicism
Raises
The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.
Che Guevara
Love
Great
Quality
Impossible
Feeling
Think
Guided
Great Feeling
True
Genuine
Revolutionary
Lacking
Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.
Ho Chi Minh
Good
Strength
Remember
Opportunity
Good Opportunity
Pine
Stability
Storm
Show
The only passion that guides me is for the truth... I look at everything from this point of view.
Che Guevara
Truth
Me
Passion
Everything
Guides
Only
Point
Point Of View
Look
View
How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!
Samuel Adams
Words
Will
Tools
Tyrant
How
Plain
Meaning
Meaning Of
Strangely
Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.
Che Guevara
Only
Cruel
Leaders
New
Replaced
Turn
When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.
Marquis de Lafayette
Government
Rights
People
Sacred
Most
For The People
Insurrection
Duties
Each
Portion
Violates
The masses go into a revolution not with a prepared plan of social reconstruction, but with a sharp feeling that they cannot endure the old regime. Only the guiding layers of a class have a political program, and even this still requires the test of events and the approval of the masses.
Leon Trotsky
Class
Events
Political
Old
Feeling
Revolution
Approval
Guiding
Reconstruction
Only
Layers
Sharp
Masses
Still
Test
Go
Endure
Cannot
Regime
Social
Plan
Requires
Even
Prepared
Program
If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy.
Marquis de Lafayette
People
Will
Fall
Liberties
Destroyed
Clergy
American
Hands
American People
Ever
Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.
Che Guevara
Work
Great
Passion
Big
Revolution
Great Work
Audacity
Any
Doses
Required
Needed
To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.
Mikhail Bakunin
Life
Dignity
Animal
Natural
Worm
Relative
Vitality
General
Tendency
Foot
Instinct
Crushes
Revolt
Intensity
Against
Natural Tendency
Turns
Measured
Even
When I was a boy, the priest, my uncle, carefully inculcated upon me this proverb, which I then learned and have ever since kept in my mind: 'Dico tibi verum, Libertas optima rerum; Nunquam servili, sub nexu vivito, fili.' 'I tell you a truth: Liberty is the best of things, my son; never live under any slavish bond.'
William Wallace
Truth
Best
Me
You
Son
Liberty
Mind
Uncle
Live
Carefully
Inculcated
Tell
Never
Priest
Since
Learned
Boy
Proverb
Any
Which
Then
Ever
Things
Bond
Kept
Slavish
How easy it is to govern when one follows a system of consulting the will of the people and one holds as the only norm all the actions which contribute to the well being of the people.
Che Guevara
People
Will
System
Easy
Follows
Only
Consulting
Well
Well-Being
How
Govern
Norm
Contribute
Being
Holds
Which
Actions
Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.
Mikhail Bakunin
Freedom
Lie
Equality
Political
Lying
Fraud
Pretense
Economic
Without
Political Freedom
Want
Workers
The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
Samuel Adams
Nature
Man
Natural
Liberty
Law
Will
Free
Superior
Power
Earth
Rule
Only
His
Authority
Any
Legislative
Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.
Samuel Adams
Life
Best
Property
Together
Rights
Natural
Liberty
First
Secondly
Colonists
Them
Manner
Natural Rights
Among
Right
Defend
Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.
Mikhail Bakunin
Good
Freedom
Dignity
Consists
Morality
Individual
He
Freely
Forced
Because
Does
Precisely
Human
Wants
Human Dignity
Loves
From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.
Mikhail Bakunin
Equality
Men
Rule
Only
Point
Point Of View
Exceptions
Equal
Geniuses
Idiots
View
Naturalistic
Two
The love of power, like the love of money, increases with the possession of it; and we know in what ruin these baneful passions have involved human societies in all ages when they have been let loose and suffered to rage uncontrolled - There is no restraint like the pervading eye of the virtuous citizens.
Samuel Adams
Love
Money
Power
Rage
Increases
Ruin
Virtuous
Possession
Eye
Citizens
Restraint
Uncontrolled
Like
Know
Involved
Loose
Passions
Been
Human
Ages
Suffered
Societies
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