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.

Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.

All revolutions devour their own children.

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

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

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

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

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.

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.

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

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.