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.

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

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.

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

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

Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.

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

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

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

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

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

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