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

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

Who draws his sword against his prince must throw away the scabbard.

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

All revolutions devour their own children.

The only justification of rebellion is success.

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

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.

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. 

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

Governments are not overthrown by the poor, who have no power, but by the rich—when they are insulted by their inferiors and cannot obtain justice.

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

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.