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.

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

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 only justification of rebellion is success.

The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty.

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

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

Governments are not overthrown by the poor, who have no power, but by the rich—when they are insulted by their inferiors and cannot obtain justice.

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.

Revolutions are always verbose.

Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

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