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

The only justification of rebellion is success.

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

Governments are not overthrown by the poor, who have no power, but by the rich—when they are insulted by their inferiors and cannot obtain justice.

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

All men recognize the right of revolution, that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.

Make the revolution a parent of settlement and not a nursery of future revolutions.

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.