The only justification of rebellion is success.

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

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.

And then, sir, there is this consideration: that if the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up and, claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. 

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

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

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

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

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

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.

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.