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

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.

Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin; the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover; he only beats the water for another’s net.

Revolutions never go backward.

There is a kind of revolution of so general a character that it changes the mental tastes as well as the fortunes of the world.

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.

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

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

All revolutions devour their own children.