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

Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. 

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

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

Revolutions never go backward.

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.

Who draws his sword against his prince must throw away the scabbard.

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

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.

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

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.