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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.

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

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

Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.