Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

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

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

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.

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.

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.

Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.

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

Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.

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

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.

Insurgents are like conquerors: they must go forward; the moment they are stopped, they are lost.

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