All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

All revolutions devour their own children.

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

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny, they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

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

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. 

The only justification of rebellion is success.