You [Robespierre] will follow us soon. Your house will be beaten down and salt sown in the place where it stood.
Nature has cast but two men in the mould of statesmen,--myself and Mirabeau. After that she broke the mould.
Audacity, more audacity, always audacity.
To dare, and again dare, and forever dare!
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.