Revolutions are always verbose.

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

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

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.

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. 

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

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

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

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.