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

And then, sir, there is this consideration: that if the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up and, claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.

All revolutions devour their own children.

Revolutions are not about trifles, but they are produced by trifles. 

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

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.

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

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

The only justification of rebellion is success.

The peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The starving peasant, outside the class system, is the first among the exploited to discover that only violence pays. For him there is no compromise, no possible coming to terms. 

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.

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.