Fidel Castro Quotes

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Bad as despotism is, doomed as it is to work its own ruin, the first fruits of its overthrow are not love and liberty.

The tree of liberty could not grow were it not watered with the blood of tyrants

The altar of liberty totters when it is cemented only with blood

O Liberty, how many crimes are committed in thy name!

The price of toppling Gadhafi will be steep. But Libyans will topple him, and in doing so, they will bring down with him the castles of fear our dictators thought they had fortified.

We know what the birth of a revolution looks like: A student stands before a tank. A fruit seller sets himself on fire. A line of monks link arms in a human chain. Crowds surge, soldiers fire, gusts of rage pull down the monuments of tyrants, and maybe, sometimes, justice rises from the flames.

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

People have a right to violence, to rebel, to fight back.

During my last voyage to America, I enjoyed the happiness of seeing that revolution completed, and, thinking of the one that would probably occur in France, I said in a speech to Congress, published everywhere except in the 'French Gazette,' 'May this revolution serve as a lesson to oppressors and as an example to the oppressed!'

He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third.

Give me liberty or give me death.

I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which to revolute.

If officials are too forceful, people will revolt.

What has commonly been called rebellion has more often been nothing but a glorious struggle in opposition to the lawless power of rebellious kings and princes

Liberty has its roots in blood.

A traitor is a good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty.

The removal of a tyrant is not merely justifiable; it is the highest duty of every true revolutionist.

I don't believe we should have any rulers. It is right to kill them.

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny

Throughout the history of mankind there have been murderers and tyrants; and while it may seem momentarily that they have the upper hand, they have always fallen. Always.

The bounty you must pay for freedom is to give the strength of your arms to put down tyranny. One short hour will deliver our country from the oppressor; and freedom in religion, peace and tranquility, equal laws and an improved country will be the prize.

Unmanacle the slave… unsceptre the despot… erect an altar on the Inquisition’s grace, to raise a people to the altitude of freedom.

Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.

The coming struggle will be fought by Europe as a whole for the sacred national rights of all peoples against tyranny.