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

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

To escape its wretched lot, the populace has three ways, two imaginary and one real. The first two are the rum shop and the church; the third is the social revolution.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Revolutions are always verbose.

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

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

Revolutions never go backward.