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

All revolutions devour their own children.

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

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

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

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.

Revolutions never go backward.

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

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.

Revolutions are always verbose.

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

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.