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

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.

All revolutions devour their own children.

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.

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

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

Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.

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.

Revolutions are always verbose.

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

Revolutions never go backward.

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

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.