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

Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

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.

All revolutions devour their own children.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.