Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient that they love themselves.

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

Softness to traitors will destroy us all.

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.

Formerly, when a king died at Versailles the reign of his successor was immediately announced by the cry: "The king is dead, long live the king", in order to make it understood that despotism is immortal! Now an entire people, moved by a sublime instinct, cried: Long live the Republic! to teach the universe that tyranny died with the tyrant.

To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.