I had rather be guillotined than a guillotiner.
In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.
The tocsin you hear today is not an alarm but an alert: it sounds the charge against our enemies.
Audacity, more audacity, always audacity.
The most striking characters are sometimes the product of an infinity of little accidents.
Nature has cast but two men in the mould of statesmen,--myself and Mirabeau. After that she broke the mould.