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

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

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.

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

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

Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. 

All revolutions devour their own children.

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.

Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man, not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

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.

To escape its wretched lot, the populace has three ways, two imaginary and one real. The first two are the rum shop and the church; the third is the social revolution.