All revolutions devour their own children.

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

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. 

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

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

Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.

Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.

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.

In revolutions men fall and rise. Long before this war is over, much as you hear me praised now, you may hear me cursed and insulted.

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

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

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. 

Revolutions never go backward.