All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the state.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

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

Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.

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.