Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.

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

Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.

Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.

Governments are not overthrown by the poor, who have no power, but by the rich—when they are insulted by their inferiors and cannot obtain justice.

The only justification of rebellion is success.

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.

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 never go backward.

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

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

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

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.