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.

All revolutions devour their own children.

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

Revolutions are always verbose.

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

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

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

In revolutions men fall and rise. Long before this war is over, much as you hear me praised now, you may hear me cursed and insulted.

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

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.

Revolutions never go backward.

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 only justification of rebellion is success.