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

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

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

It is with regret that I pronounce the fatal truth: Louis ought to perish rather than a hundred thousand virtuous citizens; Louis must die that the country may live

Establish liberty on a rock of brass.

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

Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country.