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

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.

Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.

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

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

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

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

All revolutions devour their own children.

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.

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made—through disobedience and through rebellion.

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

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 surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.