To conquer [our enemies] we must dare, and dare again, and dare for ever; and thus will France be saved

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.

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

The most striking characters are sometimes the product of an infinity of little accidents.

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

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

In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.