Revolutions are always verbose.

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.

I have been ever of the opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

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

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

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

Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.

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

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