Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.

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

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

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.

Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

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

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

Who draws his sword against his prince must throw away the scabbard.

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.

I have been ever of the opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.