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

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

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

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

And then, sir, there is this consideration: that if the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up and, claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.

Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.