An oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters.

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. 

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

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.

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.

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

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made—through disobedience and through rebellion.

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

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