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

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

Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.

Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin; the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover; he only beats the water for another’s net.

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

There is a kind of revolution of so general a character that it changes the mental tastes as well as the fortunes of the world.

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

The peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The starving peasant, outside the class system, is the first among the exploited to discover that only violence pays. For him there is no compromise, no possible coming to terms. 

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

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

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

To cast aside obedience, and by popular violence to incite revolt, is treason, not against man only, but against God.

The only justification of rebellion is success.