Maximilien Robespierre: "Dahulu, ketika seorang raja meninggal di Vers...

"Dahulu, ketika seorang raja meninggal di Versailles, pemerintahan penggantinya segera diumumkan oleh seruan: "Raja sudah mati, umur panjang raja", untuk membuatnya dipahami bahwa despotisme itu abadi! Sekarang seluruh orang, tergerak oleh naluri luhur, berteriak: Hidup Republik! untuk mengajarkan alam semesta bahwa tirani mati bersama tiran."

--- Maximilien Robespierre

Versi Bahasa Inggris

Formerly, when a king died at Versailles the reign of his successor was immediately announced by the cry: "The king is dead, long live the king", in order to make it understood that despotism is immortal! Now an entire people, moved by a sublime instinct, cried: Long live the Republic! to teach the universe that tyranny died with the tyrant.