Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

Revolutions never go backward.

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

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

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.

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.

Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.

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

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.

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

All revolutions devour their own children.