I have left my balls to Robespierre and my legs to Couthon. That should help the Committee of Public Safety for a while.
Nature has cast but two men in the mould of statesmen,--myself and Mirabeau. After that she broke the mould.
In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.
In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.
Let us be terrible in order to prevent the people from being terrible themselves!
At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned.