I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

I have tasted freedom. I will not give up that which I have tasted.

I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne.

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.