Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.

Revolutions never go backward.

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

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

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

Governments are not overthrown by the poor, who have no power, but by the rich—when they are insulted by their inferiors and cannot obtain justice.

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

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.

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny, they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.

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

The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.