Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. 

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.

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.

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Revolutions are always verbose.

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.

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

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.