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.

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

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

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.

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

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

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. 

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

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

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

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.

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