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

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.

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

Revolutions are always verbose.

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

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

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.

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. 

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

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

All revolutions devour their own children.

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

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.