Insurgents are like conquerors: they must go forward; the moment they are stopped, they are lost.

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.

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

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. 

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.

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

There is a kind of revolution of so general a character that it changes the mental tastes as well as the fortunes of the world.

Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.

The only justification of rebellion is success.