Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.

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

I have been ever of the opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.

Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin; the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover; he only beats the water for another’s net.

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

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

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made—through disobedience and through rebellion.

Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.

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.