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

Revolutions are always verbose.

The only justification of rebellion is success.

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

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.

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.

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.

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.

I began revolution with eighty-two men. If I had to do it again, I do it with ten or fifteen and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

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.

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. 

If there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.