To escape its wretched lot, the populace has three ways, two imaginary and one real. The first two are the rum shop and the church; the third is the social revolution.

If there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man, not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.

In revolutions men fall and rise. Long before this war is over, much as you hear me praised now, you may hear me cursed and insulted.

To cast aside obedience, and by popular violence to incite revolt, is treason, not against man only, but against God.

Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.

The only justification of rebellion is success.

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

Governments are not overthrown by the poor, who have no power, but by the rich—when they are insulted by their inferiors and cannot obtain justice.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the state.