“- Danton: The same men mustn't stay in power too long.
- Robespierre: You aspire to power?
- Danton: I don't need to aspire to power. I have it. The only real power: from the man in the street. Because I understand him and he understands me. Never forget that.”
Gérard Depardieu - Danton
Wojciech Pszoniak - Robespierre

“Look, Sully, I want you to learn this savages from the inside, I want you to gain their trust. I need to know how to force their cooperation or hammer them hard if they won't.”
Stephen Lang - Col. Quaritch

“Trying to make these policemen understand something is harder than doing it yourself.”
Billie Burke - Mrs. Topper

“This government of ours doesn't realise what sort of a world we're living in.”
David Horne - Evans, Foreign Editor

“If you know what's good for you, take those weapons home and burn them! And then think... think of this country and of the law that makes it what it is. Think of a world crying for this very law! And maybe you'll understand why you ought to guard it.”
Ronald Colman - Professor Michael Lightcap