Lapham’s Quarterly

Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.

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.

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.

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

Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.

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

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. 

All revolutions devour their own children.