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.

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

Revolutions never go backward.

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

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

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

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

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

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