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. 

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

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man, not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

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.

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

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

Revolutions are always verbose.

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

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

I have been ever of the opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

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.

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

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.