Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.

Revolutions are always verbose.

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

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

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

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.

The peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The starving peasant, outside the class system, is the first among the exploited to discover that only violence pays. For him there is no compromise, no possible coming to terms. 

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

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.

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin; the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover; he only beats the water for another’s net.

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