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

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.

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.

No one makes a revolution by himself, and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.

The only justification of rebellion is success.

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

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

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

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.

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man, not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.

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