Revolutions are always verbose.

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

The only justification of rebellion is success.

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

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.

Insurgents are like conquerors: they must go forward; the moment they are stopped, they are lost.

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

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.

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

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 brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

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.

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.