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.

I began revolution with eighty-two men. If I had to do it again, I do it with ten or fifteen and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

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.

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

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

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

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

Governments are not overthrown by the poor, who have no power, but by the rich—when they are insulted by their inferiors and cannot obtain justice.

Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.