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.

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

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

The king must die so that the country can live.

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.

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.

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