The only justification of rebellion is success.

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

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

Revolutions are not about trifles, but they are produced by trifles. 

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

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.

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

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.

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

If not us, who? If not now, when?

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.