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“Hurrah for revolution and more cannon-shot! A beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar on foot. Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on.”

Feet Changed Revolution Goes On Shots Beggar Lashes Cannons Horseback

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us. When we begin to take the lowest places, to wash the feet of others, to love our brothers with that burning love, that passion which led to the cross, then we can truly say, 'Now I have begun'.”

Heart Passion Challenges Feet Brother Revolution Crosses Burning Lowest Burning Love

Author:Dorothy Day

“The wind bit hard at Valley Forge one Christmas. Soldiers tied rags on their feet. Red footprints wrote on the snow...”

War Hard Bits Feet Wind Revolution Red Soldier Snow Valleys Tied Footprint American Revolution Rags Valley Forge

Book:The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

“I sometimes, in my sprightly moments, consider myself, in my great chair at school, as some dictator at the head of a commonwealth. In this little state I can discover all the great geniuses, all the surprising actions and revolutions of the great world in miniature. I have several renowned generals but three feet high, and several deep-projecting politicians in petticoats. I have others catching and dissecting flies, accumulating remarkable pebbles, cockleshells, etc., with as ardent curiosity as any virtuoso in the Royal Society.”

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“One thing is certain: those who worked and voted for less government, the very foot soldiers in the conservative revolution, have been deceived. Today, the ideal of limited government has been abandoned by the GOP, and real conservatives find their views no longer matter.”

Has Beens Real Matter Government Today Certain Views One Thing Feet Revolution Ideals Soldier Conservative Abandoned Deceived Limited Government Gop

Author:Ron Paul

“Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot?”

Mean Hands Lying Enemy Feet Revolution Bounds Resistance Acquire Hug Phantoms American Revolution Hands And Feet American Freedom

Author:Patrick Henry

“The final goal of world revolution is not socialism, or even communism, it is not a change in the present economic system, it is not the destruction of civilization in a material sense. The revolution desired by the leaders is moral and spiritual, it is an anarchy of ideas in which all the bases established nineteen centuries ago shall be overthrown, all the honored traditions trodden under foot, and, above all, the Christian ideal finally obliterated.”

“There was a basket at her feet. She reached into it and lifted out the head of a young woman, a marquise. She wore Bourbon white to her death, but wears the tricolor now - white cheeks, blue lips, red dripping from her neck. Long live the revolution.”

Long Young White Feet Revolution Red Blue Lips Necks Cheeks Young Women Baskets Dripping Bourbon

Book:Revolution

Source: Revolution

“There was a burst of laughter so sudden Miri jumped to her feet in alarm. Bena and Liana had pushed Peder out of the bed and onto the floor. He in turn leaped on Liana's bed, clinging to it and laughing as the girls tugged at his ankles. "So, are you two betrothed?" Katar asked. "No," Miri said shortly "Ohh." Karter smirked, one eyebrow raised, and she looked altogether more like her old self. "It appears I stumbled upon a topic of conversation even more dangerous than revolution.”

Said Two Self Turns Girl Laughing Feet Dangerous Revolution Bed Conversation Laughter Raised Topics Eyebrows Alarms Clinging Like Her Ankles Old Self

Author:Shannon Hale