The vessel of Revolution can arrive at port only on a sea reddened by torrents of blood.
When a people, having become free, establish wise laws, their revolution is complete... Peace and prosperity, public virtue, victory, everything is in the vigor of the laws. Outside of the laws, everything is sterile and dead.
Monarchy is an outrage which even the blind of an entire people cannot justify... all men hold from nature the secret mission to destroy wherever it my be found. No man can reign innocently. The folly is too evident. Every king is a rebel and a usurper. Do kings themselves treat otherwise those who seek to usurp their authority?
What produces the general good is always terrible or seems bizarre when begun too soon. The Revolution must stop when it has perfected public happiness and liberty through the laws.
In every Revolution a dictator is needed to save the state by force, or censors to save it by virtue.
Dare! - this word contains all the politics of our revolution.
To dare: that is the whole secret of revolutions.
When a people, having become free, establish wise laws, their revolution is complete.
One does not make revolutions by halves.
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 blasé, as strong liquors made the palace blasé.
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