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

Revolutions are always verbose.

The only justification of rebellion is success.

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

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

All revolutions devour their own children.

Governments are not overthrown by the poor, who have no power, but by the rich—when they are insulted by their inferiors and cannot obtain justice.

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.

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

I began revolution with eighty-two men. If I had to do it again, I do it with ten or fifteen and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

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

Revolutions never go backward.

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.