Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

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

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.

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

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

All revolutions devour their own children.

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

The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.