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Revolution Quotes by Georges Danton
- 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…
- I have left my balls to Robespierre and my legs to Couthon. That should help the Committee of Public Safety for a while.
- You [Robespierre] will follow us soon. Your house will be beaten down and salt sown in the place where it stood.
- In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.
- At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned.
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