The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny, they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

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

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. 

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.

And then, sir, there is this consideration: that if the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up and, claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.

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

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

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.