All revolutions devour their own children.

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

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.

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 have never lightened the burden of tyranny, they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

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.

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

The only justification of rebellion is success.

Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.

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

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

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