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

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

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

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.

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

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

Make the revolution a parent of settlement and not a nursery of future revolutions.

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

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny, they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

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

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

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

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.