Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

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

Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.

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

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

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.

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

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

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

To cast aside obedience, and by popular violence to incite revolt, is treason, not against man only, but against God.

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.

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

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