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

Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.

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.

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

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.

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

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to 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.

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

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.

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.

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

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.