Government arrogates to itself that it alone forms men. Everybody knows that government never began anything. It is the whole world that thinks and governs.

One on God's side is a majority.

Revolution is the only thing, the only power, that ever worked out freedom for any people. The powers that have ruled long and learned to love ruling, will never give up that prerogative until they must, till they see the certainty of overthrow and destruction if they do not. To plant-to revolutionize-these are the twin stars that have ruled our pathway. What have we then to dread in the word Revolution-we, the children of rebels!

Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.

Revolutions are not made: they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.

The hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people