Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

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.

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.

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

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

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

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

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

Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin; the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover; he only beats the water for another’s net.

If not us, who? If not now, when?

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

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