Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it read more

If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution

Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand,
by dividing we fall.

Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand,
by dividing we fall.

I know and all the world knows, that revolutions never go
backwards.

I know and all the world knows, that revolutions never go
backwards.

The most seditious is the most cowardly.
[Lat., Seditiosissimus quisque ignavus.]

The most seditious is the most cowardly.
[Lat., Seditiosissimus quisque ignavus.]

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

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

Revolution: in politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

Revolution: in politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

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

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