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

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

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

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

Audacity, more audacity, always audacity.

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

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