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

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

Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made—through disobedience and through rebellion.

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

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

Revolutions never go backward.

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

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.

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

To cast aside obedience, and by popular violence to incite revolt, is treason, not against man only, but against God.

All revolutions devour their own children.

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