All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.

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

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

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.

The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.

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

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

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.

Revolutions are always verbose.

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

All revolutions devour their own children.

Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.

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