Top 6 Camille Desmoulins Quotes

#1. I am thirty-three - the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Camille Desmoulins

#2. 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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#3. 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

#4. Burning is no answer.

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#5. Popular and democratic government is the only constitution which suits France, and all those who are worthy of the name of men.

Camille Desmoulins

#6. Clemency is also a revolutionary measure.

Camille Desmoulins

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