Burning is no answer.

- Camille Desmoulins

What is this much repeated phrase 'active citizen' supposed to mean? The active citizens are the ones who took the Bastille.

- Camille Desmoulins

Clemency is also a revolutionary measure.

- Camille Desmoulins

I shall die in the belief that to make France free, republican and prosperous, a little ink would have sufficed - and only one guillotine.

- Camille Desmoulins

I am thirty-three - the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

- Camille Desmoulins

Popular and democratic government is the only constitution which suits France, and all those who are worthy of the name of men.

- Camille Desmoulins