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“There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention.”

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Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“I'm a secret nonmember of the establishment. This isn't a grubby kind of revolution I'm talking about. This isn't Che Guevara stuff. I don't want to live on berries in the woods - I don't think anybody does.”

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Author:Louis O. Kelso

“The path the capitalist revolution will take faces in exactly the opposite direction from that taken by the communist revolution. It seeks to diffuse the private ownership of capital instead of abolishing it entirely. It seeks to make all men capitalists instead of preventing anyone from being a capitalist by making the State the only capitalist.”

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Author:Louis O. Kelso

“I see, therefore, the rentier aspect of capitalism as a transitional phase which will disappear when it has done its work. And with the disappearance of its rentier aspect much else in it besides will suffer a sea-change. It will be, moreover, a great advantage of the order of events which I am advocating, that the euthanasia of the rentier, of the functionless investor, will be nothing sudden, merely a gradual but prolonged continuance of what we have seen recently in Great Britain, and will need no revolution.”

Source: General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money

“All revolutions more or less threaten the tenure of property: but most of those who live in democratic countries are possessed of property - not only are they possessed of property but they live in the condition of men who set the greatest store upon their property.”

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Book:Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II

Source: Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II

“If ever America undergoes great revolutions, they will be brought about by the presence of the black race on the soil of the United States - that is to say, they will owe their origin not to the equality but to the inequality of conditions.”

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Author:Alexis de Tocqueville

“Nations are less disposed to make revolutions in proportion as personal property is augmented and distributed among them, and as the number of those possessing it is increased.”

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Book:Democracy in America

Source: Democracy in America

“Kelso and Adler's book could start a revolution.”

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Author:Caspar Weinberger

“When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.”

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Author:Victor Hugo

“Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.”

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Book:Notre-Dame de Paris

Source: Notre-Dame de Paris

“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”

“Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.”

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Author:Adlai E. Stevenson

“The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.”