I have left my balls to Robespierre and my legs to Couthon. That should help the Committee of Public Safety for a while.
Oh, it were better to be a poor fisherman than to meddle with the government of men.
To dare, and again dare, and forever dare!
At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned.
We must dare, and dare again, and go on daring.
Nature has cast but two men in the mould of statesmen,--myself and Mirabeau. After that she broke the mould.