This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.

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

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.

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

Revolutions never go backward.

The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

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

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.

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

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

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

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

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