The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. Beware how you take away hope from any human being. What we know of the past is mostly not worth knowing. What is worth knowing is mostly uncertain. Events in the past may roughly be divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.
Great minds have purposes, little minds have wishes.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. The stakes are much too high for government to be a spectator sport. A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free. If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room. The New England Journal of Medicine reports that 9 out of 10 doctors agree that 1 out of 10 doctors is an idiot.