An oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters.

If not us, who? If not now, when?

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

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

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

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

No one makes a revolution by himself, and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.

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.

Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin; the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover; he only beats the water for another’s net.

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

All revolutions devour their own children.

Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.

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.