Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.

In revolutions men fall and rise. Long before this war is over, much as you hear me praised now, you may hear me cursed and insulted.

No one makes a revolution by himself, and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.

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.

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

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.

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.