Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.

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.

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

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

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

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

To cast aside obedience, and by popular violence to incite revolt, is treason, not against man only, but against God.

If not us, who? If not now, when?