Audacity, more audacity, always audacity.
I have left my balls to Robespierre and my legs to Couthon. That should help the Committee of Public Safety for a while.
Let us be terrible in order to prevent the people from being terrible themselves!
After bread, education is the first need of the people.
To conquer [our enemies] we must dare, and dare again, and dare for ever; and thus will France be saved
Nature has cast but two men in the mould of statesmen,--myself and Mirabeau. After that she broke the mould.