Audacity, more audacity, always audacity.

Il nous faut de l'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace!"

(We must dare, and dare again, and go on daring!)

[Assemblée legislative, Paris; Sept. 2, 1792]

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

In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.

Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.

At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned