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 main object of a revolution is the liberation of man, not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

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

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

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.

Governments are not overthrown by the poor, who have no power, but by the rich—when they are insulted by their inferiors and cannot obtain justice.

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

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

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

Revolutions never go backward.

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.

The peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The starving peasant, outside the class system, is the first among the exploited to discover that only violence pays. For him there is no compromise, no possible coming to terms. 

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