Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.

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

Revolutions never go backward.

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

Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.

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.

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made—through disobedience and through rebellion.

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

All revolutions devour their own children.

The only justification of rebellion is success.

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

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.

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.