The peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The starving peasant, outside the class system, is the first among the exploited to discover that only violence pays. For him there is no compromise, no possible coming to terms. 

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.

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.

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

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

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

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

To escape its wretched lot, the populace has three ways, two imaginary and one real. The first two are the rum shop and the church; the third is the social revolution.

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

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

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.

Who draws his sword against his prince must throw away the scabbard.

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