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.

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

Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.

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

The only justification of rebellion is success.

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

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

No one makes a revolution by himself, and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.