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.

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.

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

No one makes a revolution by himself, and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.

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

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

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.

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

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

If not us, who? If not now, when?

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.

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