Best 20 quotes of Georges Danton on MyQuotes

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

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

Audacity, and again, audacity, and always audacity.

Boldness, and again boldness, and always boldness!

Boldness, more boldness, and perpetual boldness!.

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

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

In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

To dare, and again dare, and forever dare!

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

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