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.

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.

Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

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

Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made—through disobedience and through rebellion.

I have been ever of the opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

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

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.

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.