I have not found a single good man in government; I have found good only in the people.
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One does not make revolutions by halves.
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When human statecraft attaches a chain to the feet of a free man, whom it makes a slave in contempt of nature and citizenship, eternal justice rivets the other end about the tyrant's neck.
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One cannot reign innocently: the insanity of doing so is evident. Every king is a rebel and a usurper.
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I do not belong to any faction, I will fight them all.
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The Revolution has grown cold; all its principles are weakened; there remains only red caps worn by intriguers. The exercise of terror has made crime blasè, as strong liquors made the palace blasè.
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In every Revolution a dictator is needed to save the state by force, or censors to save it by virtue.
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Let Revolutionists be Romans, not Tatars.
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Peace and prosperity, public virtue, victory, everything is in the vigor of the laws. Outside of the laws everything is sterile and dead.
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A nation regenerates itself only upon heaps of corpses.
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