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

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

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.

The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.

Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.

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

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

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.

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.

Revolutions never go backward.

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

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