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

Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made—through disobedience and through rebellion.

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.

Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. 

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

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.

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

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

The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty.

Revolutions are always verbose.

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.