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

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

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

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

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. 

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.

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

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