Revolutions are not made: they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.
What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.
Revolutions never go backwards.
Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie!
There is nothing stronger than human prejudice.
Republics exist only on the tenure of being constantly agitated.... There is no republican road to safety but in constant distrust.