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

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

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

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

Revolutions are not about trifles, but they are produced by trifles. 

Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin; the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover; he only beats the water for another’s net.

Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.

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

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

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.

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

Revolutions never go backward.