Georg Buchner

Raise your eyes and count the small gang of your oppressors who are only strong through the blood they suck from you and through your arms which you lend them unwillingly.

Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children.

The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom.

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

Protestants in France are under intolerable despotism. Although open persecution does not now exist, yet it depends upon the whim of the king, queen, parliament, or any of the ministry.

The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.