Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny, they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

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

Revolutions are always verbose.

The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.

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

Make the revolution a parent of settlement and not a nursery of future revolutions.

Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.

There is a kind of revolution of so general a character that it changes the mental tastes as well as the fortunes of the world.

Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.

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.

And then, sir, there is this consideration: that if the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up and, claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.