Oh, it were better to be a poor fisherman than to meddle with the government of men.
Nature has cast but two men in the mould of statesmen,--myself and Mirabeau. After that she broke the mould.
I had rather be guillotined than a guillotiner.
You [Robespierre] will follow us soon. Your house will be beaten down and salt sown in the place where it stood.
To dare, and again dare, and forever dare!
The tocsin you hear today is not an alarm but an alert: it sounds the charge against our enemies.