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

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

Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.

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

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

If there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.

And then, sir, there is this consideration: that if the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up and, claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

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

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

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

The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

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