The only justification of rebellion is success.

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

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.

All revolutions devour their own children.

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.

I have been ever of the opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin; the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover; he only beats the water for another’s net.

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

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

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.

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.

Revolutions never go backward.