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

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

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

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

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.

All revolutions devour their own children.

Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

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

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

Who draws his sword against his prince must throw away the scabbard.

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.

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