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

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

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

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

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

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

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

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.

Revolutions never go backward.

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

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

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

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