It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

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

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.

Revolutions never go backward.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Revolutions are always verbose.

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

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.

Make the revolution a parent of settlement and not a nursery of future revolutions.