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.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

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

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

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man, not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

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

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

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.

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

Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

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

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