Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

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

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

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.

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.

Revolutions are always verbose.

Insurgents are like conquerors: they must go forward; the moment they are stopped, they are lost.

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

The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty.

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

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the state.

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.

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.