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

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.

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

Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.

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

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

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

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.

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. 

Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.

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.

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.

An oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters.