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

Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.

Revolutions are always verbose.

Revolutions never go backward.

All revolutions devour their own children.

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.

Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.

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

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.

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.

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

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made—through disobedience and through rebellion.