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

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

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

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

No one loves armed missionaries; the first lesson of nature and prudence is to repulse them as enemies.

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

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