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“By their own admission, leaders of the Republican Revolution of 1994 think their greatest mistake was overlooking the power of the veto. They gave the impression they were somehow in charge when they weren't.”

Thinking Mistake Leader Revolution Republican Impression Admission Veto Overlooking

Author:Mitch McConnell

“[T]he people seem to have deposited the monarchical and taken up the republican government with as much ease as would have attended their throwing off an old and putting on a new suit of clothes.”

People Seems Government Taken Revolution Republican Clothes Suits Ease Throwing American Revolution Republican Government

Book:1777-18 June, 1779, including the Revisal of the laws, 1776-1786

Source: 1777-18 June, 1779, including the Revisal of the laws, 1776-1786

“However much the various phases of the French Revolution may have modelled themselves on Roman history the early phase on Republican virtue, the later on Imperial grandeur the fact remains that classicism depended on a fixed and rational philosophy; whereas the spirit of the Revolution was one of change and of emotion.”

May Philosophy Facts Spirit Emotion Virtue Revolution Republican Remains Various Rational Fixed Phases Grandeur French Revolution Classicism

Book:The romantic rebellion: romantic versus classic art

Source: The romantic rebellion: romantic versus classic art

“The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers. Think about the things that have improved our lives the most over the past century - medical advances, the transportation revolution, huge increases in consumer goods, dramatic improvements in housing, the computer. The people who created these things - the doers - are not popular heroes. Our heroes are the talkers who complain about the doers.”

Source: Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays

“I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.”

“Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.”

Hands Revolution Republican Tyranny Rebellion Despotism Fertile

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte