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

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

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

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

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