No one makes a revolution by himself, and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.

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

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.

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 not made by men in spectacles.

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

Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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