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

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.

Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.

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.

Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

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

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.