Revolution by Number
“We are in a strange period of history in which a revolutionary has to be a patriot and a patriot has to be a revolutionary.”
Letter to The Tribune (20 December 1940), later published in A Patriot After All, 1940-1941 (1999)
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1960s, I am Prepared to Die (1964)

As quoted in Peter Kropotkin : From Prince to Rebel (1990) by George Woodcock and Ivan Avakumovic, p. 407

Conversation with Friedrich Wilhem Riemer (July, 1817)

1810s, Letter to H. Tompkinson (AKA Samuel Kercheval) (1816)

Source: Neither Left nor Right: Fascist Ideology in France, 1996, p. 21

“What a strange development of patriotism that turns a thinking being into a loyal machine!”

What is to be Done? (1902)

“Wealth has never yet sacrificed itself on the altar of patriotism.”
"La Follette Fights for Higher War Tax", New York Times http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9E05E3DE123FE433A25751C2A96E9C946696D6CF (August 22, 1917)

“A revolutionary moment in the world’s history is a time for revolutions, not for patching.”
Pt. 1, 7
Social Insurance and Allied Services (1942)
Context: Any proposals for the future, while they should use to the full the experience gathered in the past, should not be restricted by consideration of sectional interests established in the obtaining of that experience. Now, when the war is abolishing landmarks of every kind, is the opportunity for using experience in a clear field. A revolutionary moment in the world’s history is a time for revolutions, not for patching.