Revolutions never go backward.

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 always verbose.

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

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

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. 

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.

Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.

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

Governments are not overthrown by the poor, who have no power, but by the rich—when they are insulted by their inferiors and cannot obtain justice.

I have been ever of the opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

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.

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