Committee Of Public Safety Quotes

Now, a river of blood will divide France from its enemies.

Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!

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

I have left my balls to Robespierre and my legs to Couthon. That should help the Committee of Public Safety for a while.

The reign of terror to which France submitted has been more justly termed "the reign of cowardice." One knows not which most to execrate,--the nation that could submit to suffer such atrocities, or that low and bloodthirsty demagogue that could inflict them. France, in succumbing to such a wretch as Robespierre, exhibited, not her patience, but her pusillanimity.

You [Robespierre] will follow us soon. Your house will be beaten down and salt sown in the place where it stood.

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

Clemency is patricide

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