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.

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

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

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

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

All revolutions devour their own children.