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

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

All revolutions devour their own children.

Revolutions never go backward.

An oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters.

If not us, who? If not now, when?

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

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.

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

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. 

Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.

All men recognize the right of revolution, that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.