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.
Let us be terrible in order to prevent the people from being terrible themselves!
Audacity, more audacity, always audacity.
To conquer [our enemies] we must dare, and dare again, and dare for ever; and thus will France be saved