To form a truly free constitution, that's to say, truly just and wise, the first point, the main point, the capital point, is that all the laws be agreed on by the people, after considered reflection, and especially having taken… — Jean-Paul Marat Copy Share Image
“Don’t be deceived when they tell you things are better now. Even if there’s no poverty to be seen because the poverty’s been hidden.… — Jean-Paul Marat Copy Share Image
Jacobins, I have a truth to tell you. You do not know your most deadly enemies; they are the constitutional priests. It is they… — Jean-Paul Marat Copy Share Image
It is the height of stupidity to claim that men who for a thousand years have had the power to berate us, to fleece… — Jean-Paul Marat Copy Share Image
Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness. — Jean-Paul Marat Copy Share Image
How could liberty ever establish itself amongst us? Apart from a few tragic scenes, the revolution has been nothing but a web of farcical… — Jean-Paul Marat Copy Share Image
[We need] someone bold, to put himself at the head of the disaffected and rally them against the oppressor. Some great character who could… — Jean-Paul Marat Copy Share Image
It seems that the inevitable fate of man is never attain complete freedom: princes everywhere tend to despotism and the people to servitude. — Jean-Paul Marat Copy Share Image
Five or six hundred [aristocratic] heads lopped off would have assured you repose and happiness; a false humanity has restrained your arm and suspended… — Jean-Paul Marat Copy Share Image
No, liberty is not made for us: we are too ignorant, too vain, too presumptious, too cowardly, too vile, too corrupt, too attached to… — Jean-Paul Marat Copy Share Image
Nothing will make me change my principles. Even with the knife at my neck I shall still declare, up to this day, the poor… — Jean-Paul Marat Copy Share Image
To form a truly free constitution, that's to say, truly just and wise, the first point, the main point, the capital point, is that… — Jean-Paul Marat Copy Share Image