Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny, they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

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

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.