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

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

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made—through disobedience and through rebellion.

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.

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

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

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. 

Revolutions never go backward.

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

Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.

Revolutions are always verbose.

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

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.