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

Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.

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

There is a kind of revolution of so general a character that it changes the mental tastes as well as the fortunes of the world.

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

The peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The starving peasant, outside the class system, is the first among the exploited to discover that only violence pays. For him there is no compromise, no possible coming to terms. 

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. 

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.

Governments are not overthrown by the poor, who have no power, but by the rich—when they are insulted by their inferiors and cannot obtain justice.

Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.

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

Revolutions never go backward.

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