Maximilien Robespierre

The king must die so that the country can live.

Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.

Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.

I go in the butchers and there's not a lot of meat I can eat these days, with having all the animals.

After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.

The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis.