All revolutions devour their own children.

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

Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.

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

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

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.

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

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

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

Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.

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

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

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