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

Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

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

All men recognize the right of revolution, that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.

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

Revolutions never go backward.

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

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

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.

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.

Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.

The only justification of rebellion is success.