Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.

The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.

Food that is necessary for man’s existence is as sacred as life itself. Everything that is indispensable for its preservation is the common property of society as a whole. It is only the surplus that is private property and can be safely left to individual commercial enterprise.

When a Banker jumps out of a window, jump after him - that's where the money is.

Terror is nothing else than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible.

Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.

Establish liberty on a rock of brass.