Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.

Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.

One can...never create [freedom] by an invading force.

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

By sealing our work with our blood, we may see at least the bright dawn of universal happiness.

The revolution is the war of liberty against its enemies. The constitution is the rule of liberty against its enemies. The constitution is the rule of liberty when victorious and peaceable.

Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible. It is then an emanation of virtue.