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.

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

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.

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.

The only justification of rebellion is success.

Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.

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

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

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.

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

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

Revolutions are always verbose.

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