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

Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.

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.

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

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

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. 

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

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

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

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

Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.