Paul Revere/1765-1774 - The Gathering Storm of Revolution

Famous quotes containing the words revere, gathering, storm and/or revolution:

    If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God.
    Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    Master, I knew that you were a harsh man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not scatter seed...
    Bible: New Testament, Matthew 25:24,25.

    Beneath the azure current floweth;
    Above, the golden sunlight glows.
    Rebellious, the storm it wooeth,
    As if the storms could give repose.
    Mikhail Lermontov (1814–1841)

    Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
    George Orwell (1903–1950)