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.

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

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

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the state.

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

Insurgents are like conquerors: they must go forward; the moment they are stopped, they are lost.

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

Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

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

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

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.

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.