Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.

Make the revolution a parent of settlement and not a nursery of future revolutions.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.