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

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.

Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.

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.

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

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.

All revolutions devour their own children.

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

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