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.

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

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made—through disobedience and through rebellion.

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

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.

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.

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

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.

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

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.