Georges Danton Quotes

In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.

Oh, it were better to be a poor fisherman than to meddle with the government of men.

After bread, education is the first need of the people.

You [Robespierre] will follow us soon. Your house will be beaten down and salt sown in the place where it stood.

To dare, and again dare, and forever dare!

I have left my balls to Robespierre and my legs to Couthon. That should help the Committee of Public Safety for a while.

We must dare, and dare again, and go on daring.

The tocsin you hear today is not an alarm but an alert: it sounds the charge against our enemies.

The most striking characters are sometimes the product of an infinity of little accidents.

Boldness, and again boldness, and always boldness!

One must never compromise with tyrants. One can only strike at kings through the head. Nothing can be expected from European kings except by force of arms. I vote for the death of the tyrant.

In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.

Nature has cast but two men in the mould of statesmen,--myself and Mirabeau. After that she broke the mould.

Audacity, more audacity, always audacity.

At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned.

To conquer [our enemies] we must dare, and dare again, and dare for ever; and thus will France be saved

I had rather be guillotined than a guillotiner.

Audacity, and again, audacity, and always audacity.

Show my head to the people. It is worth seeing.

Let us be terrible in order to prevent the people from being terrible themselves!