Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.

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.

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

The only justification of rebellion is success.

Revolutions never go backward.

And then, sir, there is this consideration: that if the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up and, claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.

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.

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

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.