Five or six hundred [aristocratic] heads lopped off would have assured you repose and happiness; a false humanity has restrained your arm and suspend….

Nothing will make me change my principles. Even with the knife at my neck I shall still declare, up to this day, the poor have done everything; it is….

Don't be taken in when they paternally pat you on the shoulder and say that there's no inequality worth speaking of and no more reason to fight becau….

No, liberty is not made for us: we are too ignorant, too vain, too presumptious, too cowardly, too vile, too corrupt, too attached to rest and to ple….

How could liberty ever establish itself amongst us? Apart from a few tragic scenes, the revolution has been nothing but a web of farcical scenes..

It seems that the inevitable fate of man is never attain complete freedom: princes everywhere tend to despotism and the people to servitude..

It is the height of stupidity to claim that men who for a thousand years have had the power to berate us, to fleece us and to oppress us with impunit….

To form a truly free constitution, that's to say, truly just and wise, the first point, the main point, the capital point, is that all the laws be ag….

[We need] someone bold, to put himself at the head of the disaffected and rally them against the oppressor. Some great character who could captivate ….

Jacobins, I have a truth to tell you. You do not know your most deadly enemies; they are the constitutional priests. It is they who protest most in t….

In a few days, I will have them all guillotined in Paris..

Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness..

Man has the right to deal with his oppressors by devouring their palpitating hearts..