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

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

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

An oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters.

The only justification of rebellion is success.

In revolutions men fall and rise. Long before this war is over, much as you hear me praised now, you may hear me cursed and insulted.

I have been ever of the opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

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. 

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.

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

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

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