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

Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.

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.

Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.

No one makes a revolution by himself, and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.

An oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters.

To escape its wretched lot, the populace has three ways, two imaginary and one real. The first two are the rum shop and the church; the third is the social revolution.

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

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

All revolutions devour their own children.

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

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

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