If not us, who? If not now, when?

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.

In revolutions men fall and rise. Long before this war is over, much as you hear me praised now, you may hear me cursed and insulted.

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.

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

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

To escape its wretched lot, the populace has three ways, two imaginary and one real. The first two are the rum shop and the church; the third is the social revolution.

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

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

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

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

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

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.