Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. 

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

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.

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

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.

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

Revolutions are always verbose.

If there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.

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?

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.

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

There is a kind of revolution of so general a character that it changes the mental tastes as well as the fortunes of the world.