Bertrand Barere de Vieuzac Quotes

In a few days, I will have them all guillotined in Paris.

The “terror” of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years.

Above all, one hideous figure grew as familiar as if it had been before the general gaze from the foundations of the world - the figure of the sharp female called La Guillotine. It was the popular theme for jests; it was the best cure for headache, it infallibly prevented hair from turning gray, it imparted a peculiar delicacy to the complexion, it was the National Razor which shaved close: who kissed La Guillotine looked through the little window and sneezed into the sack.

Cut off heads for me! Cut off heads for me! The French Revolution cut off forty thousand, and for all that the population did not diminish.

My machine [the guillotine] will take off a head in a twinkling and the victim will feel nothing but a refreshing coolness. We cannot make too much haste, gentlemen, to allow the nation to enjoy this advantage.

Terror is nothing other than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible; it is therefore an emanation of virtue.

The Revolution has grown cold; all its principles are weakened; there remains only red caps worn by intriguers. The exercise of terror has made crime blasé, as strong liquors made the palace blasé.

We will cut off his head with the crown upon it.

There was a basket at her feet. She reached into it and lifted out the head of a young woman, a marquise. She wore Bourbon white to her death, but wears the tricolor now - white cheeks, blue lips, red dripping from her neck. Long live the revolution.

The guillotine was most effective and used until fairly recently.

It is with regret that I pronounce the fatal truth: Louis must die that the country may live.

Terror is the order of the day.

From this window we see the palace where the King is misled by perfidious counsels. Terror and fear have often issued from yon palace: let them return to-day in the name of the law, and let all those who inhabit that palace know that the King is alone inviolable, that the law will strike down the guilty without respect of persons, and that there is not a guilty head which can escape its sword.

Lead the people by reason and the people's enemies by terror.

Root out the counterrevolutionaries without mercy, lock up suspicious characters in concentration camps... Shirkers will be shot, regardless of past service.

The ship of the revolution can only arrive in port on water red with blood.

The system of Terror now proscribed throughout the French Republic cannot for one moment be tolerated in our little country without destroying it forever. Our system of government, our domestic circumstances and our dealings in commerce are all too sensitive to survive a repetition of these scenes of violence.

The felon would feel only a slight freshness on the back of the neck. With this machine, I chop your head off in a twinkling, and you do not suffer.

Terror, terror, terror. Life was a reign o terror in the shadow of the guillotine.

Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine.

I had rather be guillotined than a guillotiner.

There are many people who live with terrorism every day.

Terrorism is contempt for human dignity.

Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.

Nothing, nothing justifies terrorism.