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.

Revolutions never go backward.

All revolutions devour their own children.

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

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.

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

Revolutions are always verbose.

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

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

The only justification of rebellion is success.

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

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

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