Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

Revolutions never go backward.

Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.

Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.

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.

Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. 

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.

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

Revolutions are not about trifles, but they are produced by trifles. 

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

All men recognize the right of revolution, that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.

To cast aside obedience, and by popular violence to incite revolt, is treason, not against man only, but against God.