Show my head to the people. It is worth seeing.
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.
Let us be terrible in order to prevent the people from being terrible themselves!
Boldness, and again boldness, and always boldness!
I had rather be guillotined than a guillotiner.