Who draws his sword against his prince must throw away the scabbard.

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man, not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

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.

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

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

Revolutions are always verbose.

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

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

Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.

Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny, they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

The only justification of rebellion is success.

Revolutions never go backward.