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

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

Revolutions are always verbose.

All revolutions devour their own children.

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

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

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.

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

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.

Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.

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

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

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