Insurgents are like conquerors: they must go forward; the moment they are stopped, they are lost.

The only justification of rebellion is success.

Revolutions are not about trifles, but they are produced by trifles. 

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.

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

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

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

Revolutions are always verbose.

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.