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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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