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

I began revolution with eighty-two men. If I had to do it again, I do it with ten or fifteen and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

All revolutions devour their own children.

Revolutions never go backward.

Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.

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

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

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.

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

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

Revolutions are not about trifles, but they are produced by trifles.