Camille Desmoulins Quotes

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

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

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

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

Clemency is also a revolutionary measure.

Burning is no answer.