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

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

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

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

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

Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny, they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.

Revolutions are always verbose.

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

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

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

To cast aside obedience, and by popular violence to incite revolt, is treason, not against man only, but against God.