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

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.

Revolutions never go backward.

If there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.

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

Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.

Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin; the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover; he only beats the water for another’s net.

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

Insurgents are like conquerors: they must go forward; the moment they are stopped, they are lost.

Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

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

To escape its wretched lot, the populace has three ways, two imaginary and one real. The first two are the rum shop and the church; the third is the social revolution.