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

All revolutions devour their own children.

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

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.

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.

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.

Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.

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. 

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

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

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.

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

Revolutions never go backward.