The only justification of rebellion is success.

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made—through disobedience and through rebellion.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

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.

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

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

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

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

Insurgents are like conquerors: they must go forward; the moment they are stopped, they are lost.

All revolutions devour their own children.

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 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.