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

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

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.

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

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

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

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. 

The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty.

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.

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

Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.

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