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

The only justification of rebellion is success.

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.

The peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The starving peasant, outside the class system, is the first among the exploited to discover that only violence pays. For him there is no compromise, no possible coming to terms. 

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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