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

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

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

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

The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.

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.

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.

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