“It is difficult for me to imagine what "personal liberty" the unemployed can have who go hungry and cannot find utilization of their labor.”

“To slacken the tempo...would mean falling behind. And those who fall behind get beaten.”

“There are on occasions, as we know, when resources are abundant, but they are expended so incompetently that the advantage is nullified.”

“This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.”

“The rich experience of history teaches that up to now not a single class has voluntarily made way for another class.”

“Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority.”

“The Parisian is to the French what the Athenian was to the Greeks: no one sleeps better than he, no one is more openly frivolous and idle, no one appears more heedless. But this is misleading. He is given to every kind of listlessness, but when there is glory to be won he may be inspired with every kind of fury. Give him a pike and he will enact the tenth of August, a musket and you have Austerlitz. He was the springboard of Napoleon and the mainstay of Danton. At the cry of "la patrie" he enrols, and at the call of liberty he tears up the pavements. Beware of him!”

“It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.”