Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

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

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

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.

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.

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.

Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.

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

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the state.