Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.

Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.

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.

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

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

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.

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

Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin; the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover; he only beats the water for another’s net.

The peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The starving peasant, outside the class system, is the first among the exploited to discover that only violence pays. For him there is no compromise, no possible coming to terms. 

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.

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