Revolutions are not about trifles, but they are produced by trifles. 

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.

Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.

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

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.

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.

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

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.

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

Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.