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

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.

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