Camille Desmoulins

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I shall die in the belief that to make France free, republican and prosperous, a little ink would have sufficed - and only one guillotine.
- Camille Desmoulins
Collection: Ink
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What is this much repeated phrase 'active citizen' supposed to mean? The active citizens are the ones who took the Bastille.
- Camille Desmoulins
Collection: Mean
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Popular and democratic government is the only constitution which suits France, and all those who are worthy of the name of men.
- Camille Desmoulins
Collection: Men
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Clemency is also a revolutionary measure.
- Camille Desmoulins
Collection: Revolution
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I am thirty-three - the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.
- Camille Desmoulins
Collection: Jesus
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Burning is no answer.
- Camille Desmoulins
Collection: Burning