But the talk of revolution, and this is what I want to spend a little time on today, The talk of revolution can obscure something more important than the thing itself, something fundamental that differentiates the revolution of all other peoples in history of man. You see, when the French or the Russians or anyone else has a revolution, it is a severance, a separation from what came before. Their revolutions are overturnings, acts of destruction as much as creation. (16:32–16:46)
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Asserts that American revolutions are fundamentally different from other historical revolutions.
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