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

In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.

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.

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.

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

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