Revolutions are always verbose.

All men recognize the right of revolution, that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.

The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty.

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.

The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

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

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

Insurgents are like conquerors: they must go forward; the moment they are stopped, they are lost.

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

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.

Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin; the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover; he only beats the water for another’s net.

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

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.