All revolutions devour their own children.

Who draws his sword against his prince must throw away the scabbard.

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. 

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.

Revolutions are always verbose.

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

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

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 never go backward.

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

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

Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.

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.