The only justification of rebellion is success.

To escape its wretched lot, the populace has three ways, two imaginary and one real. The first two are the rum shop and the church; the third is the social revolution.

The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

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

Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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