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.

Revolutions are always verbose.

I began revolution with eighty-two men. If I had to do it again, I do it with ten or fifteen and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

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

All revolutions devour their own children.

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

Insurgents are like conquerors: they must go forward; the moment they are stopped, they are lost.

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

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.

Revolutions never go backward.

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.

Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin; the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover; he only beats the water for another’s net.