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

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

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

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

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

Audacity, and again, audacity, and always audacity.

Audacity, more audacity, always audacity.