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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

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

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

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

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.