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.

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

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

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.

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.

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.

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

Revolutions never go backward.

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

The only justification of rebellion is success.

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

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