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

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.

Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.

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

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.

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

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.

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

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

The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

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.

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.

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