Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. 

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin; the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover; he only beats the water for another’s net.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.

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.

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

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

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.

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