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

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

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny, they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

Insurgents are like conquerors: they must go forward; the moment they are stopped, they are lost.

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

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

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

Revolutions never go backward.

The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty.