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

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.