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.

There is a kind of revolution of so general a character that it changes the mental tastes as well as the fortunes of the world.

The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.

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

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

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

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.

Revolutions are always verbose.

Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.

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

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.