Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible. It is then an emanation of virtue.

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.

To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.

Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.

The king must die so that the country can live.

Softness to traitors will destroy us all.

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

Citizens, did you want a revolution without revolution?

When a Banker jumps out of a window, jump after him - that's where the money is.

By sealing our work with our blood, we may see at least the bright dawn of universal happiness.

The aim of constitutional government is to preserve the Republic; that of revolutionary government is to lay its foundation.

Politeness, delicacy [and] decency ... are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery, and cowardice.

This would become a lifelong pattern, sitting in my comfort zone high above the world in some sort of self-imposed exile.

When a 'setback' brings a 'comeback, ' that's grace in action!

It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error

Every system I have in my house or my car, they're all tuned exactly the same.

For life be, after all, only a waitin' for somethin' else than what we're doin'; and death be all that we can rightly depend on.

What is comfortable fashion? To be comfortable, that can't be in the vocabulary of fashion. If you want to be comfortable, stay home in your pajamas.

That is what fame is, isn't it? To get the world to fall in love with you.

I didn't have any set idea of what kind of filmmaker I wanted to be. I knew I wanted to tell stories that meant something to me, but I never said I was going to be the weird, avant-garde guy.

The only negative thing about murder is that when you kills someone they can no longer suffer