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.

Revolutions are always verbose.

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

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.

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

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.

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. 

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

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

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

The only justification of rebellion is success.

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

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.