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

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

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.

The only justification of rebellion is success.

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.

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. 

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.