"It would be easy to say that the Jacobins were in love with power or that Robespierre established a personal dictator…"

"I know we cannot flatter ourselves that we have attained perfection; but holding up a Republic surrounded by enemies,…"

"Things have been said to you about the Jews that are infinitely exaggerated and often contrary to history. How can th…"

"It is indeed a great interest, the conservation of your colonies, but even that interest is connected with your const…"

"The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual."

"You have driven out the kings: but have you driven out the vices that their fatal domination has bred within you?"

"poverty corrupts the People’s behaviour and degrades its soul; it predisposes it to crime"

"Citizens, imagination usually sets the limits of the possible and the impossible; but when you have the will to do go…"

"Man is born to be happy and free, and everywhere he is enslaved and unhappy! Society exists for the purpose of conser…"

"Citoyens, vouliez-vous une révolution sans révolution?"