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

Revolutions never go backward.

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.

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

I have been ever of the opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

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

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

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

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.