Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.

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

Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.

In revolutions men fall and rise. Long before this war is over, much as you hear me praised now, you may hear me cursed and insulted.

Revolutions never go backward.

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.

The peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The starving peasant, outside the class system, is the first among the exploited to discover that only violence pays. For him there is no compromise, no possible coming to terms. 

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny, they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

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

The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty.

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

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