The only justification of rebellion is success.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 to tyrants is obedience to God.

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

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.

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. 

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