Revolutions never go backward.

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.

Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.

To escape its wretched lot, the populace has three ways, two imaginary and one real. The first two are the rum shop and the church; the third is the social revolution.

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

All men recognize the right of revolution, that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.

Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.

Insurgents are like conquerors: they must go forward; the moment they are stopped, they are lost.

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