It has been said that terror is the principle of despotic government. Does your government therefore resemble despotism? Yes, as the sword that gleam….

Is it to be thought unreasonable that the people, in atonement for wrongs of a century, demand the vengeance of a single day?.

By sealing our work with our blood, we may see at least the bright dawn of universal happiness..

Citizens, did you want a revolution without revolution?.

Softness to traitors will destroy us all..

Food that is necessary for man’s existence is as sacred as life itself. Everything that is indispensable for its preservation is the common property ….

To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty..

When a Banker jumps out of a window, jump after him - that's where the money is..

One can...never create [freedom] by an invading force..

Omelets are not made without breaking eggs..

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant..

The aim of constitutional government is to preserve the Republic; that of revolutionary government is to lay its foundation..

The revolution is the war of liberty against its enemies. The constitution is the rule of liberty against its enemies. The constitution is the rule o….

Smuggle out the truth, pass it through all the obstacles that its enemies fabricate; multiply, spread by all means possible her message so that she m….

Formerly, when a king died at Versailles the reign of his successor was immediately announced by the cry: "The king is dead, long live the king", in ….

We must smother the internal and external enemies of the Republic or perish with it; now in this situation, the first maxim of your policy ought to b….

Peoples do not judge in the same way as courts of law; they do not hand down sentences, they throw thunderbolts; they do not condemn kings, they drop….

The most extravagant idea that can be born in the head of a political thinker is to believe that it suffices for people to enter, weapons in hand, am….

Terror is nothing more than justice, prompt, secure and inflexible..

Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence ….

Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all..