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.

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. 

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

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

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

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

Revolutions never go backward.

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

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

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.

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.

The only justification of rebellion is success.

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