To the accusation that Cuba wants to export its revolution, we reply: Revolutions are not exported, they are made by the people. The Second Declaration of Havana (1962)
A revolution is not a trail of roses.... A revolution is a fight to the death between the future and the past.
We have a theoretical concept of the Revolution which is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters. With Fidel : A Portrait of Castro and Cuba (1976)
I sincerely believe revolution to be the source of legal right; but the nocturnal armed assault of March 10 could never be considered a revolution. History Will Absolve Me (1953)
The death of a fighter is not a reason to mourn, if we believe, as we have always believed, as our people have believed and as revolutionaries of every era have believed, that no true man, no true revolutionary dies in vain.