The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

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

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

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

To escape its wretched lot, the populace has three ways, two imaginary and one real. The first two are the rum shop and the church; the third is the social revolution.

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

All revolutions devour their own children.

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.

Revolutions never go backward.

The only justification of rebellion is success.

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

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