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

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. 

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

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.

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

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man, not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

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