All men recognize the right of revolution, that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.

To cast aside obedience, and by popular violence to incite revolt, is treason, not against man only, but against God.

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

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

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.

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

The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

In revolutions men fall and rise. Long before this war is over, much as you hear me praised now, you may hear me cursed and insulted.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.