Who draws his sword against his prince must throw away the scabbard.

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

The only justification of rebellion is success.

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. 

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.

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

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

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

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny, they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

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

Revolutions never go backward.

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