No one makes a revolution by himself, and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.

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

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. 

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.

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.