No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.

The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.

The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.