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

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.

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.

Is it to be thought unreasonable that the people, in atonement for wrongs of a century, demand the vengeance of a single day?

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

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

One can...never create [freedom] by an invading force.