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

Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin; the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover; he only beats the water for another’s net.

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.

Make the revolution a parent of settlement and not a nursery of future revolutions.

Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.

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

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

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

Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.

The only justification of rebellion is success.

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

The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.