Boldness, and again boldness, and always boldness!

Nature has cast but two men in the mould of statesmen,--myself and Mirabeau. After that she broke the mould.

The most striking characters are sometimes the product of an infinity of little accidents.

At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned.

In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.

One must never compromise with tyrants. One can only strike at kings through the head. Nothing can be expected from European kings except by force of arms. I vote for the death of the tyrant.

Let us be terrible in order to prevent the people from being terrible themselves!