Citizens, did you want a revolution without revolution?

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.

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

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

The king must die so that the country can live.

Softness to traitors will destroy us all.

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

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

By sealing our work with our blood, we may see at least the bright dawn of universal happiness.

The aim of constitutional government is to preserve the Republic; that of revolutionary government is to lay its foundation.

Terror is nothing more than justice, prompt, secure and inflexible.

She wasn't chaos. She was more of a slow burn that caught in your heart... and then you had no choice but to engulf her all at once. She was home.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

In the past the man has been first in the future the system must be first... The first object of any good system must be that of developing first class men.

For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations.

One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.

Ability to type on a computer terminal is no guarantee of sanity, intelligence, or common sense.

...the wise providence of God orders our affairs in many different ways and lovingly bestows on each one of us what is appropriate and profitable both for virtuous deeds and the mysteries of faith.

The rich will always betray the poor.

If you're paying attention to your wardrobe, Rudy believed, your mind isn't sufficiently occupied.

You must endure, and not cry out against that which cannot be avoided.