Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

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

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

To cast aside obedience, and by popular violence to incite revolt, is treason, not against man only, but against God.

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

The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty.

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.

Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.

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