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

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.

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

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

In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.

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