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

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

To escape its wretched lot, the populace has three ways, two imaginary and one real. The first two are the rum shop and the church; the third is the social revolution.

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

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

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

Revolutions are always verbose.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Revolutions never go backward.