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

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

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.

Revolutions never go backward.

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.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

All men recognize the right of revolution, that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.

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.

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.

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

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.