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

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

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.

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

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.

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

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.

Revolutions are not about trifles, but they are produced by trifles.