The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

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

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

I began revolution with eighty-two men. If I had to do it again, I do it with ten or fifteen and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

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

If not us, who? If not now, when?

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

And then, sir, there is this consideration: that if the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up and, claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.

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

To cast aside obedience, and by popular violence to incite revolt, is treason, not against man only, but against God.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

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.