If not us, who? If not now, when?

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

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

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

Revolutions never go backward.

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

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

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the state.