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

Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.

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

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.

All revolutions devour their own children.

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

In revolutions men fall and rise. Long before this war is over, much as you hear me praised now, you may hear me cursed and insulted.

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

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