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

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

All revolutions devour their own children.

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

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.

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

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.

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

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.

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

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.

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