Camille Desmoulins famous quotes
03-25-2025
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I shall die in the belief that to make France free, republican and prosperous, a little ink would have sufficed - and only one guillotine.
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I am thirty-three - the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.
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What is this much repeated phrase 'active citizen' supposed to mean? The active citizens are the ones who took the Bastille.
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Clemency is also a revolutionary measure.
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Popular and democratic government is the only constitution which suits France, and all those who are worthy of the name of men.
-- Camille Desmoulins
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I have little shame, no dignity – all in the name of a better cause.
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Some men, like spaniels, will only fawn the more when repulsed, but will pay little heed to a friendly caress.
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A tiny remnant of a big thing is better than a whole little thing.
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I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.
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It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
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I really and definitely think that France has the capability to come forward. The EU should maintain their own position, without influence.
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You must believe before everything else that the revolution must come, that there is no other choice,
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I'm really not one about reform, I'm about tearing it down, revolution
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Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police, or folly.
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Give me time and I'll give you a revolution.
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