Camille Desmoulins quotes
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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.”
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“I am thirty-three - the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.”
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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.”
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“Clemency is also a revolutionary measure.”
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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
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“I have little shame, no dignity – all in the name of a better cause.”
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“A tiny remnant of a big thing is better than a whole little thing.”
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“It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.”
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Source : "Who is Abdullah Ocalan?" by Beat Witschi, www.cnn.com. May 12, 2005.
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“I'm really not one about reform, I'm about tearing it down, revolution”
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“Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police, or folly.”
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