The tocsin you hear today is not an alarm but an alert: it sounds the charge against our enemies.

My only regret is that I'm going before that rat, Robespierre! [to his executioner] Don't forget to show my head to the people; it's well worth seeing.

In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.

One must never compromise with tyrants. One can only strike at kings through the head. Nothing can be expected from European kings except by force of arms. I vote for the death of the tyrant.

After bread, education is the first need of the people.

Let us be terrible in order to prevent the people from being terrible themselves!

I have left my balls to Robespierre and my legs to Couthon. That should help the Committee of Public Safety for a while.

Boldness, more boldness, and perpetual boldness!.

I had rather be guillotined than a guillotiner.

You [Robespierre] will follow us soon. Your house will be beaten down and salt sown in the place where it stood.

To conquer [our enemies] we must dare, and dare again, and dare for ever; and thus will France be saved

It's the witching hour once more-When the Muse comes out to play.He calls me through that magic door-Where galaxies of worlds await!

I hope I died honorably. I have a great deal to atone for. - Eler Nersal

A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.

Music is in all growing things; And underneath the silky wings Of smallest insects there is stirred A pulse of air that must be heard; Earth's silence lives, and throbs, and sings.

It is the minority that has stood in the vain of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world.

The liberty that remains to us is essentially the freedom to choose among brands A, B, and C.

In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.

Democracy is not a spectator sport.

Sometimes when we see or hear of a need, there is nothing we can do to help. Sometimes the only thing we can do is pray. But never underestimate the power of the prayers of the righteous.

At one point, I thought life was about acquiring things. But as a I get older, life is totally about losing everything.