I have left my balls to Robespierre and my legs to Couthon. That should help the Committee of Public Safety for a while.

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

To dare, and again dare, and forever dare!

You [Robespierre] will follow us soon. Your house will be beaten down and salt sown in the place where it stood.

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

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

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