Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.

There is a kind of revolution of so general a character that it changes the mental tastes as well as the fortunes of the world.

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

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

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.

To escape its wretched lot, the populace has three ways, two imaginary and one real. The first two are the rum shop and the church; the third is the social revolution.

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

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

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

Revolutions are always verbose.

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

The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.