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.

Who draws his sword against his prince must throw away the scabbard.

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.

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.

The only justification of rebellion is success.

Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

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.

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