Burning is no answer.

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

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

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

Burning is no answer.

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

Clemency is also a revolutionary measure.