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

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

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

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

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.

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

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

If there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man, not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. 

Governments are not overthrown by the poor, who have no power, but by the rich—when they are insulted by their inferiors and cannot obtain justice.

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.

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