In revolutions men fall and rise. Long before this war is over, much as you hear me praised now, you may hear me cursed and insulted.

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

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 are not made by men in spectacles.

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.

Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man, not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

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.

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