Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. 

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

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

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

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

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

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

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.

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

Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.

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.

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.

Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin; the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover; he only beats the water for another’s net.