Revolutions never go backward.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the state.

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

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

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.

The only justification of rebellion is success.

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

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.

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

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

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

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

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