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

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

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.

Revolutions never go backward.

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

No one makes a revolution by himself, and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny, they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

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.