Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.
Revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets
If obedience is the result of the instinct of the masses, revolt is the result of their thought.
Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of revolution.
Variety made the Revolution. Liberty was just a pretext.
I am the signet which marks the page where the revolution has been stopped; but when I die it will turn the page and resume its course.
Revolutions are good times for soldiers of talent and courage.
Revolutions are like the most noxious dungheaps, which bring into life the noblest vegetables.