CAMILLE DESMOULINS

It is marvelous that I have walked for five years along the precipices of the Revolution without falling over them, and that I am still living; and I rest my head calmly upon the pillow of my writings... I have dreamed of a Republic such as all the world would have adored. I could never have believed that men could be so ferocious and so unjust.

I am thirty-three - the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

I shall die in the belief that to make France free, republican and prosperous, a little ink would have sufficed - and only one guillotine.

Burning is no answer.

What is this much repeated phrase 'active citizen' supposed to mean? The active citizens are the ones who took the Bastille.

The great appear great because we are on our knees: Let us rise.

Popular and democratic government is the only constitution which suits France, and all those who are worthy of the name of men.

Clemency is also a revolutionary measure.

It is marvelous that I have walked for five years along the precipices of the Revolution without falling over them, and that I am still living; and I rest my head calmly upon the pillow of my writings... I have dreamed of a Republic such as all the world would have adored. I could never have believed that men could be so ferocious and so unjust.

The great appear great because we are on our knees: Let us rise.

I shall die in the belief that to make France free, republican and prosperous, a little ink would have sufficed - and only one guillotine.

Popular and democratic government is the only constitution which suits France, and all those who are worthy of the name of men.

I am thirty-three - the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

What is this much repeated phrase 'active citizen' supposed to mean? The active citizens are the ones who took the Bastille.

Burning is no answer.

Clemency is also a revolutionary measure.