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

All revolutions devour their own children.

Revolutions are always verbose.

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

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

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

Revolutions never go backward.

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.

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made—through disobedience and through rebellion.

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

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

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.

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