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.

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

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.

Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.

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

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.

An oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters.

Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.

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

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

The only justification of rebellion is success.

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