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

An oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters.

Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.

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.

I began revolution with eighty-two men. If I had to do it again, I do it with ten or fifteen and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.

Revolutions are not about trifles, but they are produced by trifles. 

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.