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?

All revolutions devour their own children.

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

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

If there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.

Revolutions are always verbose.

Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin; the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover; he only beats the water for another’s net.

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

I have been ever of the opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

The peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The starving peasant, outside the class system, is the first among the exploited to discover that only violence pays. For him there is no compromise, no possible coming to terms. 

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