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.

All revolutions devour their own children.

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

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.

Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.

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

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the state.

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

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

Revolutions are always verbose.

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

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