No one loves armed missionaries; the first lesson of nature and prudence is to repulse them as enemies..

Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible. It is then an emanation of virtue..

The king must die so that the country can live..

Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil..

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

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….

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

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

Softness to traitors will destroy us all..

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

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 ….

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

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

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

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..

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 ….

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

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….

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….

Omelets are not made without breaking eggs..