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

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.

Revolutions never go backward.

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.

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

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

The only justification of rebellion is success.

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

I began revolution with eighty-two men. If I had to do it again, I do it with ten or fifteen and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

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

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 are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.