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

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. 

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

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.

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

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

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.

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.

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

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

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