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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

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

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.

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.

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

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.