The only justification of rebellion is success.

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

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.

Revolutions are always verbose.

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.

Make the revolution a parent of settlement and not a nursery of future revolutions.

Insurgents are like conquerors: they must go forward; the moment they are stopped, they are lost.

Revolutions never go backward.

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.

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

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.

I have been ever of the opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.