Georges Danton Quotes

• 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.

  Georges Danton

  Kings, Tyrants, Arms

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• After bread, education is the first need of the people.

  Georges Danton

  People, Needs, Bread

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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.

  Georges Danton

  Regret, People, Rats

  Last words, 1794.

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• Let us be terrible in order to prevent the people from being terrible themselves!

  Georges Danton

  Order, People, Terrible

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• In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.

  Georges Danton

  Inspirational, Order, Needs

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• Boldness, more boldness, and perpetual boldness!.

  Georges Danton

  Perpetual, Boldness

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• I had rather be guillotined than a guillotiner.

  Georges Danton

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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.

  Georges Danton

  Safety, Balls, Legs

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• In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.

  Georges Danton

  Revolution, Authority, Scoundrels

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• To conquer [our enemies] we must dare, and dare again, and dare for ever; and thus will France be saved

  Georges Danton

  Enemy, France, Conquer

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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.

  Georges Danton

  House, Down And, Salt

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• Audacity, and again, audacity, and always audacity.

  Georges Danton

  Adventure, Audacity

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• Oh, it were better to be a poor fisherman than to meddle with the government of men.

  Georges Danton

  Men, Government, Poor

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• Show my head to the people. It is worth seeing.

  Georges Danton

  War, People, Famous Last Words

  Quoted in Thomas Carlyle, History of the French Revolution (1837)

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• The most striking characters are sometimes the product of an infinity of little accidents.

  Georges Danton

  Character, Littles, Infinity

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• At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned.

  Georges Danton

  Lasts, Revolution, Abandoned

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• Nature has cast but two men in the mould of statesmen,--myself and Mirabeau. After that she broke the mould.

  Georges Danton

  Men, Vanity, Two

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• We must dare, and dare again, and go on daring.

  Georges Danton

  Meaningful, Teaching, Learning

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• The tocsin you hear today is not an alarm but an alert: it sounds the charge against our enemies.

  Georges Danton

  Enemy, Alarms, Sound

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• To dare, and again dare, and forever dare!

  Georges Danton

  Military, Forever, Dare

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• Boldness, and again boldness, and always boldness!

  Georges Danton

  Confidence, Believe In Yourself, Boldness

  Speech to Legislative Committee of General Defence, 2 Sept. 1792

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• Audacity, more audacity, always audacity.

  Georges Danton

  Audacity

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