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

It has been said that terror is the principle of despotic government. Does your government therefore resemble despotism? Yes, as the sword that gleams in the hands of the heroes of liberty resembles that with which the henchmen of tyranny are armed ... The government of the revolution is liberty's despotism against tyranny.

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.

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

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

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

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