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

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

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man, not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.

Revolutions are always verbose.

In revolutions men fall and rise. Long before this war is over, much as you hear me praised now, you may hear me cursed and insulted.

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

Revolutions are not about trifles, but they are produced by trifles.