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

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

There is a kind of revolution of so general a character that it changes the mental tastes as well as the fortunes of the world.

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

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.

Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.

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.

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. 

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.

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

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.

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

Revolutions never go backward.