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

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

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

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

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

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.

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.

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

I began revolution with eighty-two men. If I had to do it again, I do it with ten or fifteen and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.