Audacity, and again, audacity, and always audacity.

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

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.

The tocsin you hear today is not an alarm but an alert: it sounds the charge against our enemies.

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.

Oh, it were better to be a poor fisherman than to meddle with the government of men.