Georges Danton quotes:
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I have left my balls to Robespierre and my legs to Couthon. That should help the Committee of Public Safety for a while.
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Audacity, more audacity, always audacity.
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We must dare, and dare again, and go on daring.
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In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.
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At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned.
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Audacity, and again, audacity, and always audacity.
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Boldness, and again boldness, and always boldness!
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Boldness, more boldness, and perpetual boldness!.
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I had rather be guillotined than a guillotiner.
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Let us be terrible in order to prevent the people from being terrible themselves!
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Show my head to the people. It is worth seeing.
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The most striking characters are sometimes the product of an infinity of little accidents.
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To conquer [our enemies] we must dare, and dare again, and dare for ever; and thus will France be saved
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You [Robespierre] will follow us soon. Your house will be beaten down and salt sown in the place where it stood.
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One must never compromise with tyrants. One can only strike at kings through the head. Nothing can be expected from European kings except by force of arms. I vote for the death of the tyrant.
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After bread, education is the first need of the people.
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My only regret is that I'm going before that rat, Robespierre! [to his executioner] Don't forget to show my head to the people; it's well worth seeing.
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Nature has cast but two men in the mould of statesmen,--myself and Mirabeau. After that she broke the mould.
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Oh, it were better to be a poor fisherman than to meddle with the government of men.
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The tocsin you hear today is not an alarm but an alert: it sounds the charge against our enemies.
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To dare, and again dare, and forever dare!
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In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.