And then, sir, there is this consideration: that if the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up and, claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.

Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.

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

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

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

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

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.

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

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.

All revolutions devour their own children.

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

Revolutions are always verbose.

Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.