All revolutions devour their own children.

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

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

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. 

Revolutions never go backward.

Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

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

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.

All men recognize the right of revolution, that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.

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

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

Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.