All revolutions devour their own children.

Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.

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

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.

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

Revolutions never go backward.

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

Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.

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

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.

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 main object of a revolution is the liberation of man, not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.