The only justification of rebellion is success.

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

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.

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.

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

The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty.

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

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

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