Maximilien Robespierre

The king must die so that the country can live.

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

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

There will be a great loss of learning before the moon's full cycle is completed. Fire and floods will be fomented by ignorant rulers; much time will go by before it is rectified.

Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.