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

Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.

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

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

All revolutions devour their own children.

If there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.

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

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.