This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.

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.

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.

Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.

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

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

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.

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

All revolutions devour their own children.