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“It is a revolution, and it can no more be checked by human effort... than a prarie fire by a gardener's watering pot.”

Humans Effort Fire Revolution Pot Gardener

Author:Judah P. Benjamin

“This year has begun hopefully for right thinkers. After all these centuries of feudal barbarism and political slavery, it is surprising to see how the word of 'liberty' sets minds on fire.”

Years Mind Political Liberty Fire Century Revolution Slavery Hopefully Thinker Surprising Barbarism French Revolution

Book:The Corsican: The Virtual Diary of Napoleon Bonaparte

Source: The Corsican: The Virtual Diary of Napoleon Bonaparte

“It is a revolution; a revolution of the most intense character; in which belief in the justice, prudence, and wisdom of secession is blended with the keenest sense of wrong and outrage, and it can no more be checked by human effort for the time than a prairie fire by a gardener's watering pot.”

Humans Character Belief Justice Effort Fire Revolution Intense Pot Prudence Gardener Outrage Prairie Secession

Author:Judah P. Benjamin

“New perspectives give birth to new historic ages. Humankind has had many dramatic revolutions of understanding - great uses of fire and the wheel, language and writing. We found that the earth only seems flat, the sun only seems to circle the earth, matter only seems solid.”

Source: The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s

“My stage fright gets worse at every performance. During the overture I hope for a theater fire, typhoon, revolution in the Pentagon.”

Actors Fire Stage Revolution Performances Theater Fright Pentagon Stage Fright Typhoons

Book:THE GIFT HORSE

Source: THE GIFT HORSE

“Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!”

“If there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire.”

Ifs Hard Fire Revolution Prepared Fuel Sparks

Book:The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes

Source: The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes

“As long as there shall be stones, the seeds of fire will not die.”

Long Dies Fire Revolution Stones Seeds

Author:Lu Xun

“We need the conflagration of Love to change the world, we need the fire of love to illuminate the society. The cold, insipid and complicated codes don't change anything, don't transform anything. All the best social projects and the best political principles are useless if they are not written with the fire of Love. The real revolution is the result of transformation, only the storms of Love can transform the individual and the society.”

“Our freedoms were born in the ideals of the Enlightenment and the musket fires of an historic revolution.”

Born Fire Revolution Enlightenment Ideals Historic

Author:John Boehner

“I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did - or did not do - to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.”

Believe Book War Age Three Fire Written Revolution Terror Remembered Digital Three Things War On Terror History Books Digital Revolution

Author:Bono

“Those who hate most fervently must have once loved deeply; those who want to deny the world must have once embraced what they now set on fire.”

World Want Hate Fire Revolution I Hate Deny Love Hate Love And Hate Hated Love

Author:Kurt Tucholsky