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

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.

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.

Revolutions are always verbose.

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

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

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

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.