All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the state.

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.

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.

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

The peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The starving peasant, outside the class system, is the first among the exploited to discover that only violence pays. For him there is no compromise, no possible coming to terms. 

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

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

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

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

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.

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. 

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

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.