Let us be terrible in order to prevent the people from being terrible themselves!.

I had rather be guillotined than a guillotiner..

To conquer [our enemies] we must dare, and dare again, and dare for ever; and thus will France be saved.

I have left my balls to Robespierre and my legs to Couthon. That should help the Committee of Public Safety for a while..

One must never compromise with tyrants. One can only strike at kings through the head. Nothing can be expected from European kings except by force of….

In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare..

My only regret is that I'm going before that rat, Robespierre! [to his executioner] Don't forget to show my head to the people; it's well worth seein….

In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels..

Boldness, more boldness, and perpetual boldness!..

Nature has cast but two men in the mould of statesmen,--myself and Mirabeau. After that she broke the mould..

You [Robespierre] will follow us soon. Your house will be beaten down and salt sown in the place where it stood..

Audacity, more audacity, always audacity..

Oh, it were better to be a poor fisherman than to meddle with the government of men..

The most striking characters are sometimes the product of an infinity of little accidents..

After bread, education is the first need of the people..

Boldness, and again boldness, and always boldness!.

Audacity, and again, audacity, and always audacity..

At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned..

Show my head to the people. It is worth seeing..

We must dare, and dare again, and go on daring..

To dare, and again dare, and forever dare!.