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.

Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.

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.

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

To escape its wretched lot, the populace has three ways, two imaginary and one real. The first two are the rum shop and the church; the third is the social revolution.

All revolutions devour their own children.

Governments are not overthrown by the poor, who have no power, but by the rich—when they are insulted by their inferiors and cannot obtain justice.

Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.

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