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

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.

Make the revolution a parent of settlement and not a nursery of future revolutions.

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

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

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 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.

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

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

Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to 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.

The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.