No one makes a revolution by himself, and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.

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.

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

Revolutions never go backward.

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.

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

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 not made by men in spectacles.