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

Revolutions are always verbose.

The peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The starving peasant, outside the class system, is the first among the exploited to discover that only violence pays. For him there is no compromise, no possible coming to terms. 

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

In revolutions men fall and rise. Long before this war is over, much as you hear me praised now, you may hear me cursed and insulted.

The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.

Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin; the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover; he only beats the water for another’s net.

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

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

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

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

The only justification of rebellion is success.

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.