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

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

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

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

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

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

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made—through disobedience and through rebellion.

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.