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

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

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

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.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.

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

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

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

Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.