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

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

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

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.

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

I have been ever of the opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

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

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.