All revolutions devour their own children.

An oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters.

Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.

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

Revolutions never go backward.

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

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.

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

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

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

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