Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

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.

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

All men recognize the right of revolution, that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.

Revolutions never go backward.

Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.

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.

Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.

Revolutions are always verbose.

An oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters.