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

In revolutions men fall and rise. Long before this war is over, much as you hear me praised now, you may hear me cursed and insulted.

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

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 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.

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

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

Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.

The only justification of rebellion is success.

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

To escape its wretched lot, the populace has three ways, two imaginary and one real. The first two are the rum shop and the church; the third is the social revolution.

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

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