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It is well known that the most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution. (Quote by - Hannah Arendt)


The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. (Quote by - Robert M. Hutchins)


This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and responsibility until these are granted to all the women of the nation. (Quote by - Florence Kelley)


Agitation is that part of our intellectual life where vitality results; there ideas are born, breed and bring forth. (Quote by - George E. Woodberry)


If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. (Quote by - Frederick Douglass)


POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When we wriggles he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice. As compared with the statesman, he suffers the disadvantage of being alive. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)


He's an agitator and if you let him get to you then he's effective. But we've got agitators too, we just didn't happen to have our agitators going that night I guess. (Quote by - Terry Sanderson)


She (the caller) indicated that he was wearing gloves, that he was very agitated, that he had indicated that he was going to kill someone. She even said that he had put a plastic bag- type over his clothes that he called his 'killing suit' so he wouldn't get blood on his clothes when he was involved in any altercation. (Quote by - Darrell DeBusk)


There have always been grievances and youth has always been the agitator. (Quote by - William Orville Douglas)


Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. (Quote by - Mark Twain)


The risk is enormous to Democrats. Even talking about censure or impeachment threatens to really agitate the Republican base. (Quote by - Charlie Cook)


A hungry people listens not to reason, nor cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers. (Quote by - Seneca)


Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right. (Quote by - Crystal Eastman)


Miller said the article appeared to have agitated Mr. Libby, .. clandestine guy. (Quote by - Joe Wilson)


Normally, activities like that are not something that would be enough to agitate a nest. (Quote by - Valerie Fellows)



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