Revolutions are always verbose.

All revolutions devour their own children.

Revolutions are not about trifles, but they are produced by trifles. 

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

The only justification of rebellion is success.

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

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

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.

In revolutions men fall and rise. Long before this war is over, much as you hear me praised now, you may hear me cursed and insulted.

Revolutions never go backward.

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

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.

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