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

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.

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

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

Revolutions never go backward.

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

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

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

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

Who draws his sword against his prince must throw away the scabbard.

Revolutions are always verbose.

To escape its wretched lot, the populace has three ways, two imaginary and one real. The first two are the rum shop and the church; the third is the social revolution.

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