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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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