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

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

Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.

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

I have been ever of the opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

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.

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.

The peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The starving peasant, outside the class system, is the first among the exploited to discover that only violence pays. For him there is no compromise, no possible coming to terms. 

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