An oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters.

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.

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

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

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

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

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. 

I began revolution with eighty-two men. If I had to do it again, I do it with ten or fifteen and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.

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 surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

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

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.