Gabriel Carr

“Frenchmen, do not take fright at the effervescence of this first age of liberty. It is like a strong new wine that ferments until purged of all its froth… I foresee that enviable time when all masks shall fall away, when there remain only those men worthy of the values that reign in our republic. But this moment is necessary for the destruction of those who have merely aped patriotism and borrowed its clothes. At last we shall distinguish false revolutionaries from the true!”
― Georges-Jacques Danton

“A vigorous body suffering from an over abundance of sap is a richer source of strength than a corpse.”
― Maximilien Robespierre

“It has been said that terror is the principle of despotic government. Does your government therefore resemble despotism? Yes, as the sword that gleams in the hands of the heroes of liberty resembles that with which the henchmen of tyranny are armed ... The government of the revolution is liberty's despotism against tyranny. Is force made only to protect crime”
― Maximilien Robespierre

“Peoples do not judge in the same way as courts of law; they do not hand down sentences, they throw thunderbolts; they do not condemn kings, they drop them back into the void; and this justice is worth just as much as that of the courts.”
― Maximilien Robespierre