An oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters.

Who draws his sword against his prince must throw away the scabbard.

Make the revolution a parent of settlement and not a nursery of future revolutions.

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.

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.

Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.

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

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made—through disobedience and through rebellion.